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Monday, 18 June 2012

What is instances & schemas in Database Managment System(DBMS)?, Physical Schema & Logical Schema in DBMS, What is Physical Data Independence ?


What is instances & schemas in Database Managment System(DBMS)?, Physical Schema & Logical Schema in DBMS, What is Physical Data Independence ?

Schema definition
It is the logical structure of the database e.g., 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 is called physical schema


Logical schema: database design at the logical level is called logical schema


Instance – It is the actual content of the database at a particular point in time
Analogous to the value of a variable


What is Physical Data Independence ?

 It is 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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