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Data Management

Data managemen t involves collecting data and reporting information. The following categories describe the concept of data managemen t on a 900 Series HP 3000 system:

Collecting data: the data en try process, including v alidating.

Organizing data: analysis of data and its relationships; dev elopment of an appropriate data structure after analyzing the requiremen ts of the application; for example, producing a logical record la yout or schema.

Storing data: the process of installing data in a meaningful form. This is the task of taking raw data and reformatting it for application programs to use.

Accessing data: the retriev al of data for further processing. This includes additional reorganization or reduction of data for reports or other uses of the data.

Data Management Subsystems

Data Managemen t subsystems on the 900 Series HP 3000 are:

MPE/iX File System

KSAM/V (Keyed Sequential Access Method)

ALLBASE/SQL

-TurboIMAGE/XL

-HP SQL

QUERY/V

TurboIMAGE DBchange/V

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