View of Data in DBMS

In this guide, you will learn view of data in DBMS.

View of data in DBMS

Abstraction is one of the main features of database systems. Hiding irrelevant details from user and providing abstract view of data to users, helps in easy and efficient user-database interaction. In the previous tutorial, we discussed the three level of DBMS architecture, The top level of that architecture is “view level”. The view level provides the “view of data” to the users and hides the irrelevant details such as data relationship, database schema, constraints, security etc from the user.

To fully understand the view of data, you must have a basic knowledge of data abstraction and instance & schema. Refer these two tutorials to learn them in detail.

1. Data abstraction:Database systems are made-up of complex data structures. To ease the user interaction with database, the developers hide internal irrelevant details from users. This process of hiding irrelevant details from user is called data abstraction.
2. Instance and schema: Design of a database is called the schema. Schema is of three types: Physical schema, logical schema and view schema. The data stored in database at a particular moment of time is called instance of database. Database schema defines the variable declarations in tables that belong to a particular database; the value of these variables at a moment of time is called the instance of that database.