1. What is the role of a database management system (DBMS) and what are its advantages?
2. How does a relational database management system (RDBMS) differ from a flat file?
3. What are entity integrity and referential integrity?
4. Why are entity integrity and referential integrity important?
5. What are the stages of normalization?
6. How do you determine how far you want to normalize a database?
7. What are the advantages of the multi-user database environment for
8. transaction management and concurrency control? Disadvantages?
9. What does a scheduler do and why is it important to the day-to-day activity in the database?
10. What is concurrency control and what is its objective?