Application And Usages of dataBase management system DBMS

A database management system (DBMS) is a collection of programs that enables you to store, modify, and extract information from a database. There are many different types of DBMSs, ranging from small systems that run on personal computers to huge systems that run on mainframes.

Application  Database System

Database systems are widely used in different areas because of their numerous advantages. Some of the most common database applications are listed here.

• Airlines and railways: Airlines and railways use online databases for reservation, and for displaying the schedule information.
• Banking: Banks use databases for customer inquiry, accounts, loans, and other transactions.
• Education: Schools and colleges use databases for course registration, result, and other information.
• Telecommunications: Telecommunication departments use databases to store information about the communication network, telephone numbers, record of calls, for generating monthly bills, etc.
• Credit card transactions: Databases are used for keeping track of purchases on credit cards in order to generate monthly statements.
• E-commerce: Integration of heterogeneous information sources (for example, catalogs) for business activity such as online shopping, booking of holiday package, consulting a doctor, etc.
• Health care information systems and electronic patient record: Databases are used for maintaining the patient health care details.
• Digital libraries and digital publishing: Databases are used for management and delivery of large bodies of textual and multimedia data.
• Finance: Databases are used for storing information such as sales, purchases of stocks and bonds or data useful for online trading.
• Sales: Databases are used to store product, customer and transaction details.
• Human resources: Organizations use databases for storing information about their employees, salaries, benefits, taxes, and for generating salary checks.
  
  
  The basic tasks solved by DBMS application/Usages:
  • Effective processing complex data and data with set of the references for expression of the relations between them.
  • Building of Internet-shops and distributed information systems.
  • Building of the virtual company office and virtual kiosks.
  • Storage and reproduction of graphic images, video and audio.
  • Creation of WEB-sites, allotted to unlimited opportunities.