Data Bases

Source: Chapter 32 from the book, Information Systems Handbook  Date: 1974

An overview (36 pages) of the state of the art in the database management (DBMS) field from the early 1970’s. From the chapter….

“…the structuring of the data has always been with the goal in mind of achieving optimum performance for retrieval of that data for the one particular application that used it, the reuse of the same data for other applications has been difficult or impossible. As a result, when new needs for this same information came along similar data was restructured in files which fit the next application, and so forth. The end product after a period of years with multiple developments has always been much data redundancy and

the attendant expensive problems of much storage, difficult access, and poor control.

The DB approach is “data” rather than “program” oriented and builds the one DB to provide good accessibility to data for all of the applications….”
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