Before the Advent of Database Systems

Introduction

The way in which computers manage data has come a long way over the last few decades. Today’s users take for granted the many benefits found in a database system. However, it wasn’t that long ago that computers relied on a much less elegant and costly approach to data management called the file-based system.

Source: Adrienne Watt, https://opentextbc.ca/dbdesign01/chapter/chapter-1-before-the-advent-of-database-systems/
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