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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Database Management System (DBMS)
- DBMS contains information about a particular enterprise
- Collection of interrelated data
- Set of programs to access the data
- An environment that is both convenient and efficient to use
- Database Applications:
- Banking: transactions
- Airlines: reservations, schedules
- Universities: registration, grades
- Sales: customers, products, purchases
- Online retailers: order tracking, customized recommendations
- Manufacturing: production, inventory, orders, supply chain
- Human resources: employee records, salaries, tax deductions
- Databases can be very large.
- Databases touch all aspects of our lives
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University Database Example
- Application program examples
- Add new students, instructors, and courses
- Register students for courses, and generate class rosters
- Assign grades to students, compute grade point averages (GPA) and generate transcripts
- In the early days, database applications were built directly on top of file systems
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Drawbacks of using file systems to store data
- Data redundancy and inconsistency
- Multiple file formats, duplication of information in different files
- Difficulty in accessing data
- Need to write a new program to carry out each new task
- Data isolation — multiple files and formats
- Integrity problems
- Integrity constraints (e.g., account balance > 0) become “buried” in program code rather than being stated explicitly
- Hard to add new constraints or change existing ones
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Drawbacks of using file systems to store data (Cont.)
- Atomicity of updates
- Failures may leave database in an inconsistent state with partial updates carried out
- Example: Transfer of funds from one account to another should either complete or not happen at all
- Concurrent access by multiple users
- Concurrent access needed for performance
- Uncontrolled concurrent accesses can lead to inconsistencies
Example: Two people reading a balance (say 100) and updating it by withdrawing money (say 50 each) at the same time
- Security problems
- Hard to provide user access to some, but not all, data
Database systems offer solutions to all the above problems
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Levels of Abstraction
- Physical level: describes how a record (e.g., customer) is stored.
- Logical level: describes data stored in database, and the relationships among the data.
type instructor = record
ID : string;
name : string;
dept_name : string;
salary : integer;
end;
- View level: application programs hide details of data types. Views can also hide information (such as an employee’s salary) for security purposes.
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View of Data
An architecture for a database system
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Instances and Schemas
- Similar to types and variables in programming languages
- Schema – the logical structure of the database
- Example: The database consists of information about a set of customers and accounts and the relationship between them
- Analogous to type information of a variable in a program
- Physical schema: database design at the physical level
- Logical schema: database design at the logical level
- Instance – the actual content of the database at a particular point in time
- Analogous to the value of a variable
- Physical Data Independence – the ability to modify the physical schema without changing the logical schema
- Applications depend on the logical schema
- In general, the interfaces between the various levels and components should be well defined so that changes in some parts do not seriously influence others.
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Data Models
- A collection of tools for describing
- Data
- Data relationships
- Data semantics
- Data constraints
- Relational model
- Entity-Relationship data model (mainly for database design)
- Object-based data models (Object-oriented and Object-relational)
- Semistructured data model (XML)
- Other older models:
- Network model
- Hierarchical model
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Relational Model
- Relational model (Chapter 2)
- Example of tabular data in the relational model
Columns
Rows
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A Sample Relational Database
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Data Manipulation Language (DML)
- Language for accessing and manipulating the data organized by the appropriate data model
- DML also known as query language
- Two classes of languages
- Procedural – user specifies what data is required and how to get those data
- Declarative (nonprocedural) – user specifies what data is required without specifying how to get those data
- SQL is the most widely used query language
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Data Definition Language (DDL)
- Specification notation for defining the database schema
Example: create table instructor (
ID char(5),
name varchar(20),
dept_name varchar(20),
salary numeric(8,2))
- DDL compiler generates a set of table templates stored in a data dictionary
- Data dictionary contains metadata (i.e., data about data)
- Database schema
- Integrity constraints
- Primary key (ID uniquely identifies instructors)
- Referential integrity (references constraint in SQL)
e.g. dept_name value in any instructor tuple must appear in department relation
- Authorization
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SQL
- SQL: widely used non-procedural language
- Example: Find the name of the instructor with ID 22222
select name
from instructor
where instructor.ID = ‘22222’ - Example: Find the ID and building of instructors in the Physics dept.
select instructor.ID, department.building
from instructor, department
where instructor.dept_name = department.dept_name and
department.dept_name = ‘Physics’
- Application programs generally access databases through one of
- Language extensions to allow embedded SQL
- Application program interface (e.g., ODBC/JDBC) which allow SQL queries to be sent to a database
- Chapters 3, 4 and 5
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Database Design
The process of designing the general structure of the database:
- Logical Design – Deciding on the database schema. Database design requires that we find a “good” collection of relation schemas.
- Business decision – What attributes should we record in the database?
- Computer Science decision – What relation schemas should we have and how should the attributes be distributed among the various relation schemas?
- Physical Design – Deciding on the physical layout of the database
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Database Design?
- Is there any problem with this design?
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Design Approaches
- Normalization Theory (Chapter 8)
- Formalize what designs are bad, and test for them
- Entity Relationship Model (Chapter 7)
- Models an enterprise as a collection of entities and relationships
- Entity: a “thing” or “object” in the enterprise that is distinguishable from other objects
Described by a set of attributes
- Relationship: an association among several entities
- Represented diagrammatically by an entity-relationship diagram:
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The Entity-Relationship Model
- Models an enterprise as a collection of entities and relationships
- Entity: a “thing” or “object” in the enterprise that is distinguishable from other objects
- Described by a set of attributes
- Relationship: an association among several entities
- Represented diagrammatically by an entity-relationship diagram:
What happened to dept_name of instructor and student?
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Object-Relational Data Models
- Relational model: flat, “atomic” values
- Object Relational Data Models
- Extend the relational data model by including object orientation and constructs to deal with added data types.
- Allow attributes of tuples to have complex types, including non-atomic values such as nested relations.
- Preserve relational foundations, in particular the declarative access to data, while extending modeling power.
- Provide upward compatibility with existing relational languages.
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XML: Extensible Markup Language
- Defined by the WWW Consortium (W3C)
- Originally intended as a document markup language not a database language
- The ability to specify new tags, and to create nested tag structures made XML a great way to exchange data, not just documents
- XML has become the basis for all new generation data interchange formats.
- A wide variety of tools is available for parsing, browsing and querying XML documents/data
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Storage Management
- Storage manager is a program module that provides the interface between the low-level data stored in the database and the application programs and queries submitted to the system.
- The storage manager is responsible to the following tasks:
- Interaction with the file manager
- Efficient storing, retrieving and updating of data
- Issues:
- Storage access
- File organization
- Indexing and hashing
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Query Processing
1. Parsing and translation
2. Optimization
3. Evaluation
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Query Processing (Cont.)
- Alternative ways of evaluating a given query
- Equivalent expressions
- Different algorithms for each operation
- Cost difference between a good and a bad way of evaluating a query can be enormous
- Need to estimate the cost of operations
- Depends critically on statistical information about relations which the database must maintain
- Need to estimate statistics for intermediate results to compute cost of complex expressions
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Transaction Management
- What if the system fails?
- What if more than one user is concurrently updating the same data?
- A transaction is a collection of operations that performs a single logical function in a database application
- Transaction-management component ensures that the database remains in a consistent (correct) state despite system failures (e.g., power failures and operating system crashes) and transaction failures.
- Concurrency-control manager controls the interaction among the concurrent transactions, to ensure the consistency of the database.
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Database Users and Administrators
Database
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Database System Internals
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Database Architecture
The architecture of a database systems is greatly influenced by
the underlying computer system on which the database is running:
- Centralized
- Client-server
- Parallel (multi-processor)
- Distributed
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History of Database Systems
- 1950s and early 1960s:
- Data processing using magnetic tapes for storage
- Tapes provided only sequential access
- Punched cards for input
- Late 1960s and 1970s:
- Hard disks allowed direct access to data
- Network and hierarchical data models in widespread use
- Ted Codd defines the relational data model
- Would win the ACM Turing Award for this work
- IBM Research begins System R prototype
- UC Berkeley begins Ingres prototype
- High-performance (for the era) transaction processing
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History (cont.)
- 1980s:
- Research relational prototypes evolve into commercial systems
- SQL becomes industrial standard
- Parallel and distributed database systems
- Object-oriented database systems
- 1990s:
- Large decision support and data-mining applications
- Large multi-terabyte data warehouses
- Emergence of Web commerce
- Early 2000s:
- XML and XQuery standards
- Automated database administration
- Later 2000s:
- Giant data storage systems
- Google BigTable, Yahoo PNuts, Amazon, ..
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End of Chapter 1
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Figure 1.02
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Figure 1.04
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Figure 1.06
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