Thursday, April 23, 2009

Logical And Physical View Of Data

In data base design, several views of data must be considered along with the persons who use them. In addition to data structuring, where relationships are reflected between and within entities, we need to identify the application program's logical views of data within an overall logical data structure. The logical view is what the data look like, regardless of how they are stored. The physical view is the way data exist in physical storage. It deals with how data are stored, accessed, or related to other data in storage .The logical views are the user's view, the programmer's view, and the overall logical view, called a schema.

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