
Data, Databases, and Database Management ◾ 165
Where you t in: Businesses are nding more and more value in big data as new technologies
enable them to use it. Staying aware of opportunities means looking at all the data in the world
around a business, not just data that people have traditionally associated with computers.
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
By now, you have seen that databases are complicated. Accessing data in one doesn’t have
to be, though. Soware packages can manage databases so you don’t have to. Such pack-
ages are called database management systems (DBMS).
DBMSs are a type of system soware. ey are above the operating system, ...