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Sunday, 16 December 2012

List five responsibilities of a database management system.

Q) List five responsibilities of a database management system. For each responsibility, explain the problems that would arise if the responsibility were not discharged.

Answer: A general purpose database manager (DBM) has five responsibilities:

a. interaction with the file manager.


b. integrity enforcement.


c. security enforcement.


d. backup and recovery.


e. concurrency control.


If these responsibilities were not met by a given DBM