Application Program: An application program is a program that is’ used to send commands to the database management system to manipulate database. These commands are sent to the DBMS through graphical user interface. The user interacts with the application program and the application program further interacts with the database management system. Relationship of Application Program and DBMS: A... 

The use of data base approach also has disadvantages. Some of disadvantages are as follows: High Cost of DBMS: A complete database management system is very large and sophisticated software. It is expensive to purchase database management software. Higher Hardware Cost: Database management systems are complicated and heavy software. Additional memory and processing power may be required to run... 

Database Management System: A database management system (DBMS) is a collection of programs that are used to create and maintain a database. DBMS is a general-purpose software system that provides the following facilities: 1. It provides the facility to define the structure of the, database. The user can specify the data types, format, and constraints for the data to he stored in the database. 2.... 

Following are some important examples of database: Phone Directory: Phone directory is a simple example of a database. A phone directory stores the phone numbers of different persons. You can search any phone number from the phone directory easily because all phone numbers are stored in an organized way. Library: A library contains thousands of hooks. It is very difficult to handle the records...