Monday, April 6, 2009

Posting 2- Advantages of DBMS

The Advantages of DMBS in business and other organizations are its flexibility, its speed and its space advantage compared to a system with an ineffective database or a manual database. A DBMS has the ability to analyze information in many different ways so that its faster when you need to look for information in a database for your firm. The DMBS can automate specific information from hundreds to millions of different entries within seconds. Compare to physical database, a computerized DBMS saves a lot of space because data is stored in computers that are related through a network instead of having files stored in a big wareshouse.

Besides the speed, a computerized database can eliminate all the errors and problems that manual recorded databases tend to create. It basically emiminates the probability of having inconsistent data for your business. Another advantage of having an information systems is that you can base yourself with these information from your databases and learn from your actions, mistakes and success in order for your organization to improve and adapt to the rapid changing world.

For example when a firm's accountant wants to calculate the cost of the goods sold for an international company at a particular month; with the help of a DBMS, the accountant can have access to accurate purchase information from another store in another continent instantsly. Instead of manually handwritting the request and send it out to the other store which would take more time and this method also won't have the flexibility and easiness of access compare to a DBMS. Another example would be when an accountant has to do a balance sheet for a company, the accountant would have all the information from the DBMS in a better arrangement, easier to locate and more efficient to computer the balance of the firm at a particular month. Without the DBMS, the information may be more difficult to locate and arranged inefficiently.




SOURCE: 1- http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/topics/lecs/dbprimer/tsld011.htm
2- http://estudents.co.cc/database-management-systems/advantages

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