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CSE 2337
Introduction to
Data Management
Textbook:
Chapter 1
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Overview
• Premiere Products Example used in
text
• Basic Database (DB) terminology
• Basic Database Management
Systems (DBMS)
• Advantages and disadvantages of
databases
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Premiere Products
• Example Company used in the text
• Distribute appliances, sporting
goods, etc.
• Use a spreadsheet to maintain order,
customer, sales agent data
– Spreadsheet approach becoming
problematic
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Spreadsheet Problems
• Redundant Data
– Data is duplicated in more places than it
is really needed
Consider: How many customers
purchased xyz from Premiere in
month abc?
• Very difficult to access subsets of
data
• Security and size limitations
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Premiere’s Important Info
• Sales Reps
– Rep #, last name, first name, address,
total commission, commission rate
• Customers
– Customer #, name, address, current
balance, credit limit, Rep #
• Parts Inventory
– Part #, description, quantity on hand,
item class, warehouse number, unit
price
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Premiere’s Important Info
• Order
– Order #, date, cust #
• Order line
– Order #, part #, quantity ordered, unit
price
• Overall Order total
– Not store because calculated
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Database
• A database is a structure that can
store information about
– Multiple entities
– Multiple attributes for each entity
– Relationships among entities
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Entities and Attributes
• Person, place, thing, event for which
information is being held (nouns)
– Entities for Premiere???
• Attribute
– Property of an entity (adjective)
– aka. field and column
– Attributes of entities for Premiere?
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Entities vs. Attributes
Rep
RepNum LastName FirstName Street
City
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Relationships
• A relationship is an association
between entities.
– Three types
• One to One
• One to Many
• Many to Many
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One-to-One Relationship
• Customer has one and only one sales
representative
One-to-Many Relationship
• Each (one) representative is
associated with multiple customers
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How are relationships realized?
• Using/relating common attributes
between two entities
• Example: Both the Rep and
Customer entities have a repNum
attribute
• Can be used to relate customers to
sales reps OR sales reps to
customers
More to come about this…
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Figure 1.5: Rep and Customer Tables
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Figure 1.5: Orders and OrderLine Tables (con’t.)
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Entity-Relationship Diagram
• Visual representation of the logical
structure of a database
– Visualizes entities, attributes, and
relationships
– Entities are boxes
– Relationships are lines that connect
entities
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Fig. 1.7: E-R Diagram
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Database Management Systems
• Executable program(s) that allow the
user to interact with the database
• Examples
– Microsoft Access
– Oracle 10g
– IBM DB2
– Microsoft SQL Server
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Where’s that Data?
• Actual data is stored in data
structures in a file
– Computer counterpart paper file
• Could be stored in multiple files or
one file
• Point: The user doesn’t have to
worry about that level of detail!
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Building a Database
• Design of DB determines the logical
structure of the data
• Not concerned with how it is stored
in the computer
• In Access, this means designing
– Tables, attributes and relationships
– Forms - screens to maintain, view and
print from a DB
– Reports - formatted output of data from
DB
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An Access Form
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An Access Form
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Advantages of DBMS
1. Getting more information from the
same amount of data
2. Allows efficient data sharing
3. Balancing conflicting requirements
4. Controls redundancy
5. Facilitates consistency
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(more) Advantages of a DBMS
6. Improving Integrity of Data
7. Expanded security
8. Increased productivity
9. Provides data independence
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Disadvantages of a DBMS
1. Larger file size
2. Increased complexity
3. Greater impact of failure
4. More difficult to recover
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Summary
• Problems with nonDB data
management
• Definitions of Entity, Attribute,
Relationship
• Three types of relationships
• Entity Relationship Diagram
• + and - of DBMSs
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