LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Database Management System Easy Learning: Volume 1

A database management system (DBMS) is the technology for creating and managing databases. DBMS is a software tool to organize (create, retrieve, update, and manage) data in a database. A datum is a unit of data. Meaningful data combined to form information. Hence, information is interpreted data - data provided with semantics. The main aim of a DBMS is to supply a way to store up and retrieve database information that is both convenient and efficient. By data, we mean known facts that can be recorded and that have embedded meaning.