Three-tier structure of DBMS in ANSI-SPARC, extended SPARC is _________

2016

Three-tier structure of DBMS in ANSI-SPARC, extended SPARC is _________

  1. A.

    System planning and requirement committee

  2. B.

    Standard planning and requirement committee

  3. C.

    System planning and Reassesment committee

  4. D.

    System planning and review committee

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Correct answer: B

The correct option is B (Standard planning and requirement committee).

The question asks for the expansion of SPARC within the context of the ANSI-SPARC architecture, which defines the classic three-tier (three-schema) structure of a Database Management System (DBMS).

  • Full Form: ANSI stands for American National Standards Institute, and SPARC stands for Standards Planning And Requirements Committee.

  • Historical Context: In 1975, the ANSI/X3/SPARC study group proposed a framework for database management systems to achieve data independence.

  • Three-Tier Architecture: This framework divides a database system into three abstraction levels to separate the user applications from the physical database:

    1. External Level (View Schema): What the individual users see.

    2. Conceptual Level (Logical Schema): The community view of the entire data structure, detailing what data is stored and their relationships.

    3. Internal Level (Physical Schema): How the data is physically stored on the storage disk.

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