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### Enumerations:

1. **Intended Learning Outcomes:**


- Differentiate data and information
- Define database and database systems
- State the role and advantages of the DBMS
- Explain the evolution of File System Data Processing
- Describe the problems with File System Data Processing

2. **Advantages of a Database Management System (DBMS):**


- Improved data sharing
- Improved data security
- Better data integration
- Minimized data inconsistency
- Improved data access
- Improved decision making
- Increased end-user productivity

3. **Types of Databases:**
- Single-user database
- Multiuser database
- Centralized database
- Distributed database
- Operational database (Transactional or production database)
- Data warehouse
- Unstructured data
- Structured data
- Semistructured data
4. **Major Parts of a Database System:**
- Hardware
- Software
- People
- Procedures
- Data

5. **DBMS Functions:**
- Data dictionary management
- Data storage management
- Data transformation and presentation
- Security management
- Multiuser access control
- Backup and recovery management
- Data integrity management
- Database access languages and application programming interfaces
- Database communication interfaces

6. **Problems with File System Data Processing:**


- Extensive programming required
- Ad hoc queries impossible
- Changing existing structure difficult
- Structural and data dependence
- Data redundancy
- Data inconsistency
- Data anomalies (Update, Insertion, Deletion anomalies)
7. **Disadvantages of Database Systems:**
- Increased costs
- Management complexity
- Maintaining currency
- Vendor dependence
- Frequent upgrade/replacement cycles

### Key Concepts:


- **Data vs. Information:** Data are raw facts, while information is
processed data that reveals meaning.
- **DBMS:** A collection of programs that manage the database structure
and control access to data.
- **File System Data Processing Evolution:** Understanding the
transition from manual systems to computerized file systems and then to
modern databases.
- **Data Redundancy and Inconsistency:** Issues that arise when the
same data is stored in multiple locations, leading to conflicts and
anomalies.

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