What separates a personal DBMS from an enterprise-level DBMS?
- What are the different database models? How do these models compare with the relational model?
- Do the various database models store and retrieve data differently? Explain?
- What is SQL and for what purpose is it used in databases?
- What is referential integrity and why is it important?
- What is database concurrency and what does it prevent?
- A database is self-describing. By what other name is this attribute known as?
- What are the functions of a DBMS? List them and provide a brief but meaningful description of each.
- What separates a personal DBMS from an enterprise-level DBMS?
- Database design is important and full of challenges. Many databases are poorly designed. What are the characteristics of a poor database design?
- What are the three types of database design?
- In what year was the relational model developed and who developed it?
- What other DBMS constructs came after relational databases?
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