Database Management

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Data and Information
Data is a collection of raw facts.
Data of a student includes name, age, roll no,
class, sections etc.
Data about a company includes area, employee
strength, revenue, clients etc.
When ever data is being processed and meaning is
derived out of it , it is called information.
DATA
INFORMATION
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File System
File system has often has data tightly
coupled with the code, makes difficult to fix
defects.
File System based applications generally
occupies more space. For Eg: for file system
it requires 500GB on the main memory to
hold the data which is expensive.
Cannot access more data at a time with file
system. For eg: for a 32 bit addressing
system, the maximum data which could be
addressed in limited

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File System .contd
Provides only password mechanism
for the file but not the data in the file
else would need expensive encryption
algorithms to be developed
Need to write special programs to
address each users query and is
complex.
Examples are: Winamp, Calculator,
Real player all use file system.


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Database Introduction
An Organized Collection of Information with a
common Purpose.
A Collection of Data describing the Business
activities of one or more related organizations.
Technically database means its a collection of
integrated set of interrelated information which
are stored in an online medium with out
redundancy.
Data Redundancy means the unusual
repetition of information.
For Example:
Employee payroll database
Railway reservation database
Library management database, etc.


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RDBMS: Relational Data
base management System
RDBMS is defined as a collection of interrelated
data stored together to serve multiple
applications. RDBMS is robust and addresses the
following disadvantages of earlier data
management issues like :
Data redundancy and inconsistency
Difficulty in accessing data
Data Isolation
Concurrent access anomaly
Security problems
Efficiency and scalability issues


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DBMS and DB Application
Database
Management
System

DB schema, eg.,
Emp(ssn, name, addr, sal)
Dept(id, dept-name)
DB application, eg.,
/* C program with
embedded SQL*/
DB
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Skill Requirements for
Database Testing
SQL Queries, Joins
RDBMS concepts
Understand ER diagram
Understand Table structures and Data
types
Mapping Data type in front and back end
and compatibility checking
Data migration
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Automated Database Testing
Tools shows the differences coded once and verified
repeatedly ; and can report the defect to the
developer quickly.
Tools used are:
Win runner
QTP
RFT
Silk Test
Perl
Python