A computer database is defined as any organized collection of data and the technical definition is that it is a collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views and other objects as per Wikipedia. The whole idea of a database is to be able to model objects in the world in a real way that will support the easy processing of the underlying data. To manage a database, you need to employ a database management system, a specialized piece of software whose reason of being is to interact with the user, other applications and the database itself in order to acquire and analyze the data.

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