What are the advantages of modern database systems over paper-based systems?

      

Discuss the advantages modern database systems have over paper-based systems.

  

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Maurice
(i) Provide backup and recovery services.

(ii) Balance conflicting user requirements.

(iii) Increase concurrency and centralized control.

(iv) Provide multiple interfaces to different classes of users.

(v) Quick and easy to find data in an electronic database by either querying, filtering or sorting, that is, providing storage structures for efficient query processing.

(vi) Control of data redundancy, that is, no repetition which is wasteful to storage and memory.

(vii) Data consistency: Data is held once hence same in all other departments.

(viii) Enhancing enforcement of security constraints and unauthorized access to data.

(ix) Data Independence: Allows changing data storage structures and operations without having to change the DBMS access programs.

(x) It can be used to provide output in a range of different formats according to the needs of the user.

(xi) A massive volume of data can be stored in a very small space because it is electronic rather than paper.

(xii) Support of multiple views of the data: Each user may see a different view of the database, which describes only the data of interest to that user.

(xiii) Sharing of data and multi-user transaction processing: Allows a set of concurrent users to retrieve and to update the database. Concurrency control within the DBMS guarantees that each transaction is correctly executed or completely aborted.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on April 11, 2018 at 06:09


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