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| 21. | What is the purpose of Database systems? |
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| A Database Management system provides a secure and survivable medium for the storage and retrieval of data. In the real world, the data is shared among several users and is persistent. |
| 22. | What is a cursor? |
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| A cursor serves as a pointer that allows the application programming language to deal with query results one row at a time. Although the cursor can traverse all the rows of a query result, it focuses on only one row at a time. |
| 23. | What is meant by Metadata? |
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| Metadata are data about data but not the actual data. |
| Posted by Sushree. (Dec 27, 2013) | |
A set of data that describes and gives information about other data. |
| 24. | What is meant by data independence? |
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| The ability to modify a scheme definition in one level without affecting a scheme definition in the next higher level is called data independence. |
| 25. | What are the two levels of data independence? |
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