Question: Purpose: To assess your ability to:

• Discuss terminology, concepts, and procedures related to database management systems.

Action Items: • Write your response to 2 of the following discussion topics and post your answers to the discussion board topics:

• What are advantages of DBMS over traditional file based systems?

• Explain how RAID technology improves reliability and performance.

• Distinguish the three types of "Indexing Structures" single-level indexes?

• Why do we use B and B+tree in multi indexing ? and what is the difference between them ?

• Write a response to one peer in which you respectfully and professionally offer your opinion of his or her post:

• Pose a clarifying question (e.g., What did you mean by..., Why did you say..., What criteria did you use..., What was your intention..., What is the connection..., What were your assumptions...?).

• Provide an application or practical example (e.g., I have seen an example of this..., The result of this could be...)

Submission Instructions: • Post your responses to the discussion board per your professor's instructions.