Unit 1: Premendra Kumar Sahu Asst. Professor
Unit 1: Premendra Kumar Sahu Asst. Professor
●What is data?
Data is information when dealing with the
machine
Information Technology
The term information technology
(IT)includes not only the use of computers
but also communications networks and
computer literacy—knowledge of how to
usecomputer technology. As in other fields,
the basic tasks of gathering, allocating,
controlling, and retrieving information are
the same.
What Counts as information
Methods for conveying information
Defining Information Technology
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Information Technologies are systems
of hardware and/or software that
capture, process, exchange, store
and/or present information using
electrical, magnetic and/or
electromagnetic energy.
IT Example: Cellular Telephony
IT Example: Wireless Internet
IT in Society (people)
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Personal Communication
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Conversations (phone, cell)
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Messaging (E-mail, SMS)
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Video Coms
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Entertainment
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Web surfing
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Downloading video and audio files
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Interactive gaming
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Day-to-Day living
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Buying airline ticket
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Ordering books
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Electronic banking/ stock market
IT in Society (business)
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Internal Communication
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Computer network
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Corporate website
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Video teleconferencing
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Messaging (SMS, email)
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Electronic Commerce
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Call Centres
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Electronic transactions
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Online sales
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Business operations
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Factory operation systems
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Databases
Examples on IT Careers
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Information Security Jobs
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Address information security
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IT Analyst
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Translate business requirement into technical specification
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Network Administration
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Configure and operate computer network
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Management Consulting
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Provide consulting for government and organizations
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Database Administration
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Managing corporate database
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Computer Forensics Expert
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Extracts computer evidence for detecting/preventing /prosecuting crimes
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IT Sales:
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people on frontline to sell products
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Software development:
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develop software solutions
The First Generation: 1945-1956 (The Vacuum Tube Years)
1) Real-world entity
2) Relation-based tables.
3) Isolation of data and application
4) Less redundancy
5) Consistency
6) Query Language
7) ACID Properties
8) Multiuser and Concurrent Access
9) Multiple views
10) Security
Components of DBMS
1)Software
2)Hardware
3)Data
4)Procedures
5)Database Access Language
Procedures
Procedures refer to the instructions and rules that help to design the
database and to use the DBMS. The users that operate and manage the
DBMS require documented procedures on hot use or run the database
management system. These may include.
Procedure to install the new DBMS.
To log on to the DBMS.
To use the DBMS or application program.
To make backup copies of database.
To change the structure of database.
To generate the reports of data retrieved from database.
Database Access Language
The database access language is used to
access the data to and from the database.
The users use the database access language
to enter new data, change the existing data in
database and to retrieve required data from
databases.
USERs
Application Programmers
The people who write application programs in programming
languages (such as Visual Basic, Java, or C++) to interact with
databases are called Application Programmer.
Database Administrators
A person who is responsible for managing the overall database
management system is called database administrator or simply DBA.
End-Users
The end-users are the people who interact with database
management system to perform different operations on database
such as retrieving, updating, inserting, deleting data etc.
Types of Database Management
1)Hierarchical databases.
2)Network databases.
3)Relational databases.
4)Object-oriented databases
Hierarchical Databases (DBMS) :
Hierarchical Databases (DBMS) :