Database Management
What is database management? Why is it useful? According to Wisegeek, “A database management system is a suite of software applications that together make it possible for people or businesses to store, modify, and extract information from a database. Sound like something found only in bank vaults? It's not. You can find database management systems many places in your everyday life” (Wisegeek, 2007). This paper will outline the functions of a database management system and will discuss the security, concurrency and control involved. The paper will also discuss the role of a database administrator and its importance.
Functions of database management system
Just like that drop of blood that makes its way through the circulatory system from the fingertips of the body back to the left ventricle of the heart through a network of arteries and veins, only to be refreshed and pumped back out to some other part of the body, so do those bits and bytes migrate through the accounting information system (AIS) from the fingertips of your computer keyboard, through the IT network, to the central database (DB) stored on your company’s management information system (MIS) server” (Steve Jarvis, 2007, para. 1)..
To the point, a database is a collection of data compiled for the purpose of retrieval and manipulation. Databases being used everywhere in today’s world. When we go to the grocery store and enter our supersaver membership card information our data is retrieved from a database to confirm our membership. When consumers log onto a website and request a newsletter or more information from a site the information they enter will be maintained in a database. The main functions of a database are the ability to input, retrieve and manipulate data. There are ...