DATABASE MANAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION (DBMGMTCONS)

DATABASE

MANAGEMENT IN

CONSTRUCTION

(DBMGMTCONS )

DATA

OUTLINE

1.Introduction 2.Data 3.Database 4.Database System 5.Database Management in Construction Industry 6.Data Processing in Construction Industry

THE OVERVIEW OF

DATABASE

MANAGEMENT

“We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software” -Tim O'Reilly

WHAT IS DATA?

Dataare information, quantities, characters, or symbolson which operations are performed by a computer, being stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.Data refers to discrete facts, such as numbers.Data can be structured to create information, organized to produce knowledge and applied to give wisdom, for example, allowing decisions to be made. In terms of the digital economy, data is often described as being the ‘new oil’.Datacan be measured, collected, analyzed, and represented in visual form using images, graphsand other analytical tools.