The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers - Heather Hedden.pdf
Degrees of data abstraction
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2. American National Standard Institute
(ANSI) Standards Planning and Requirements
Committee (SPARC)
Defined a framework for data modelling based
on degrees of data abstraction.
5. Is the end user’s view of the data
environment.
The term end user’s refers to the people who
use the application programs to manipulate
the data and generate information.
6. A specific representation of an external view is
known as an external schema.
Each external schema includes the
appropriateness
entities, relationships, processes, and
constraints imposed by the business unit.
7.
8. It makes it easy to identify specific data
required to support each business unit’s
operations.
9. It makes the designer’s job easy by providing
feedback about the model’s adequacy.
10. It helps to ensure security constraints in the
database design. Damaging an entire
database is more difficult when each business
unit works with only a subset of data.
11. It makes application program development
much simpler.
12. The conceptual model represents as a global
view of the entire database as viewed by the
entire organization.
13. Conceptual model integrates all external
views (entities, relationships, constraints, and
processes) into single global of a data.
Also known as conceptual schema
14.
15. First, it provides a relatively easily bird’s eye
(macro level) view of the data environment.
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17. Second, the conceptual model is independent
of both software and hardware.
18. 1. Software independence means that the model
does not depend on the DBMS software used
to implement the model.
2. Hardware independence means that the model
does not depend on the hardware used in the
implementation of the model.
19. Generally, the term logical design is used to
refer to the task of creating a conceptual data
model that could be implemented in any
DBMS.
20. Once a specific DBMS has been selected, the
internal model maps the conceptual model to
the DBMS.
21. The internal model is the representation of
the database as seen by the DBMS.
22.
23. Internal model depends on specific database
software, it is said to be the software
dependent.
24. Internal model is still hardware-independent
because it is unaffected by the choice of the
computer on which the software is installed.
25. This lowest level of data abstraction is
concerned exclusively with physical storage
methods.
26. Early data models forced the database
designer to take the details of the physical
model’s data storage requirements into
account
27. However, the now dominant relational model
is aimed largely at the logical rather than the
physical level; therefore it does not require
the physical-level details common to its
predecessors.
