INFS1602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Newsql, Sap Hana, Nosql

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Information Systems
• Course: INFS1602
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Reasons for le arn in g database technology: when you participate in the development of any new business initiative, you need to know if database technology can facilitate your project goals. You need to know how to turn that data into a format from which you can construct useful information; might use graphical tools to query that data like sql: business is dynamic, and information systems must adapt. Often, such adaption means that the structure of the database needs to be changed or new ones made: you (cid:373)ight fi(cid:374)d (cid:455)ourself i(cid:374) a (cid:373)ess (cid:449)here (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)(cid:859)t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)here a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g is allo(cid:272)ated to or lo(cid:272)ated. I(cid:374) that case, you might choose to build your own database. The purpose of a database is to help people keep track of things. Lists of data involving a single theme can be stored in a spreadsheet; lists that involve data with multiple themes require a database. A database is a self-describing collection of integrated records.