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Full form of DB: Here, we are going to learn what does DB stands for? DB – which is an abbreviation of "Database" in Computer Acronyms/Abbreviations, etc.
Submitted by Anushree Goswami, on November 10, 2020

DB: Database

DB is an abbreviation of "Database". It is a structured group of data, which commonly through automatic procedure kept in reserve and accessed by using a system of the computer. The database management system (DBMS) is used in the configuration of software that works together with the database automatically to take over and evaluate the data. The DBMS also works together with the application of software and client user.

Serviceable collections

In DBMS, A variety of functions that enable management of a database and its data at the present time can be used in the format of four most significant serviceable collections:

• Data definition:
  
  1. Design
  2. Alteration and adjustment
  3. Elimination of definitions that describe the structuring of the data
• Update:
  
  1. Addition
  2. Alteration and adjustment
  3. Elimination of the real data
• Retrieval: The retrieved data possibly will be provided in a configuration fundamentally in the similar format as it is kept reserved in the database or in an original configuration achieved by modifying or merging accessible data from the database.
• Administration:
  
  1. Registering and monitoring users
  2. Enforcing data security
  3. Monitoring performance
  4. Maintaining data integrity
  5. Dealing with concurrency control

Classification

Some of the classifications of database, which comprises:

• in-memory database
• Embedded database
• Operational database
• Real-time database
• Distributed database
• Active database
• Cloud database

Database languages

• Data control language (DCL)
• Data definition language (DDL
• Data manipulation language (DML)
• Data query language (DQL)

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