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1、DatabaseManagementSystems(3thEdition),Wiley,2004,5-12AintroductiontoDatabaseManagementSystemRaghuRamakrishnanAdatabase(sometimesspelleddatabase)isalsocalledanelectronicdatabase,referringtoanycollectionofdata,orinformation,thatisspeciallyorganizedforrapidsearchandretrievalbyacomputer.Dat
2、abasesarestructuredtofacilitatethestorage,retrieval,modification,anddeletionofdatainconjunctionwithvariousdata-processingoperations.Databasescanbestoredonmagneticdiskortape,opticaldisk,orsomeothersecondarystoragedevice.Adatabaseconsistsofafileorasetoffiles.Theinformationinthesefilesmayb
3、ebrokendownintorecords,eachofwhichconsistsofoneormorefields.Fieldsarethebasicunitsofdatastorage,andeachfieldtypicallycontainsinformationpertainingtooneaspectorattributeoftheentitydescribedbythedatabase.Usingkeywordsandvarioussortingcommands,userscanrapidlysearch,rearrange,group,andselec
4、tthefieldsinmanyrecordstoretrieveorcreatereportsonparticularaggregateofdata.Complexdatarelationshipsandlinkagesmaybefoundinallbutthesimplestdatabases.Thesystemsoftwarepackagethathandlesthedifficulttasksassociatedwithcreating,accessing,andmaintainingdatabaserecordsiscalledadatabasemanage
5、mentsystem(DBMS).TheprogramsinaDBMSpackageestablishaninterfacebetweenthedatabaseitselfandtheusersofthedatabase..(Theseusersmaybeapplicationsprogrammers,managersandotherswithinformationneeds,andvariousOSprograms.)ADBMScanorganize,process,andpresentselecteddataelementsformthedatabase.This
6、capabilityenablesdecisionmakerstosearch,probe,andquerydatabasecontentsinordertoextractanswerstononrecurringandunplannedquestionsthataren’tavailableinregularreports.Thesequestionsmightinitiallybevagueand/orpoorlydefined,butpeoplecan“browse”throughthedatabaseuntiltheyhavetheneededinformat
7、ion.Inshort,theDBMSwill“manage”thestoreddataitemsandassembletheneededitemsfromthecommondatabaseinresponsetothequeriesofthosewhoaren’tprogrammers.Adatabasemanagementsystem(DBMS)iscomposedofthreemajorparts:(1)astoragesubsystemthatstoresandretrievesdatainfiles;(2)amodelingandmanip