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Does breast cancer have anything to do with body weight?j.
What is the likelihood of women over 75 years of age getting breast k.
cancer?
How early should breast cancer be detected to prevent it from getting l.
worse?
1.6 CHAPTER SUMMARY
This chapter began with a brief description of a traditional DBMS, which
provides generic software tools and environments that support the devel-
opment of a database application. The standard functions of a traditional
DBMS were described to illustrate the various functions of data defini-
tion and manipulation processes in data management. However, a tradi-
tional DBMS can only support retrieval operations on data that is physically
stored in the database. It does no ...