Differentiate between logical database design and physical database design. Show how this separation leads to data independence?
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Basis
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Logical Database Design
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Physical Database Design
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Task
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Maps or transforms the conceptual schema (or an ER schema) from the high-stages data model into a relational database schema.
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The specifications for the stored database within terms of physical storage structures, record placement, and indexes are designed.
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Choice of criteria
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The mapping can proceed in two levels:
1. System independent mapping but data model-depending.
2. tailoring the schemas to a specific DBMS.
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The following criteria are frequent used to guide the choice of physical database design option:
1. Response Time option
2. Space Utilization
3.Transaction throughout
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Result
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DDL statements within the language of the chosen DBMS that specify the conceptual and external stages schemas of the database system. But if the DDL statements involve a few physical design parameters, a completed DDL specification must wait until after the physical database.
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An initial determination of storage structures and the access paths for the database files. This corresponds to defining the internal schema in terms of Data Storage Definition Language.
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The database design is separated into various phases. The logical database design and physical database design are two of them. This separation is commonly based on the concept of three-level architecture of DBMS that gives the data independence. Therefore, we can say in which this separation leads to data independence since the output of the logical database design is the conceptual and external level schemas of the database system that is independent from the output of the physical database design which is internal schema.