Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm -- Student Value Edition (16th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm -- Student Value Edition (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9780135191927
Author: Kenneth Laudon, Jane Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6, Problem 1RQ

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Problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment

  • The traditional file environment creates many problems of managing data resources.
  • The problems include data redundancy and inconsistency, program data dependence, inflexibility, poor security and lack of data sharing and availability...

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Components in the data hierarchy

The components in the data hierarchy include database, file, record, field, byte and bit.

Database

  • A database is a collection or group of related files that belong to an organization or firm.
  • It is a structured set of data held in a computer.
  • It is a data structure that stores organized information.

File

  • A file is a collection or group of company records that contain specific information.
  • It is a common storage unit in a computer.
  • It is a sequence of records stored in binary format.

Record

  • A record is the collection of a group of related fields.
  • A record of an employee includes personal information, work history, job accomplishments, and salary information...

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Significance of entity, attribute and key fields

Entity

  • Entity is a mass block for building the data collected about person, place, event or thing.
  • Entities represent attributes with multiple instances.
  • Hence entity is about collection of data regarding person, place or thing.
  • Examples of entities are patient, musician and so on.

Attribute

  • An attribute is the property of an entity.
  • It has the information about entity and this information is captured within the attribute...

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Problems in a traditional file environment

The problems of traditional file environment include:

Data redundancy and inconsistency

  • The copy of content in several fields leads to redundancy and hence duplication occurs.
  • This is because the organization stores same content of data in different names independently.
  • This wastes the resource for storage and hence leads to inconsistency.
  • Hence this leads to confusion because different coding systems are represented for same attribute.

Program data dependence

  • This represents the coupling of data in file with small programs to update and maintain files.
  • If there are changes in the data, then the dependent file also need to be changed.
  • That is if the original data file is changed, then the other files related to that original file also needs to be changed...

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