INST 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Database Schema, Database, Data Integrity
30 Aug 2018
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A database schema is the skeleton structure that represents the logical view of the entire database. It defines how the data is organized and how the relations among them are associated. It formulates all the constraints that are to be applied on the data. A database schema defines its entities and the relationship among them. It contains a descriptive detail of the database, which can be depicted by means of schema diagrams. It"s the database designers who design the schema to help programmers understand the database and make it useful. A database schema can be divided broadly into two categories . Physical database schema this schema pertains to the actual storage of data and its form of storage like files, indices, etc. It defines how the data will be stored in a secondary storage. Logical database schema this schema defines all the logical constraints that need to be applied on the data stored.
