Computer Science 1032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Web Server, Management System, Database Application

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Louis Magguilli

Document Summary

Difficult to define, broad but is property. Content management separate the management of content data from the presentation of content. Data management focuses on how to efficiently and effectively store and process the information (bytes) traditionally handled through organizational database management systems (dbmss) Management of content data -database management systems (dbms) Presentation of content by content management system (cms) Seek out documents located across an organization & automatically manage access to the content. Purpose of both is to keep track of things. Databases - keep lists that involve multiple themes. Database is a self describing collection of integrated records. Byte character of data, grouped into columns, or fields, then grouped into rows called record, group of similar rows or records = table or a file. Database is a collection of tables plus relationships among the rows in those tables plus special data called metadata cylindrical symbol = computer disk drive. Column(s) that identify unique row in table.