Thursday, August 21, 2008

Activity No.3

For those who are working, interview your IT in-charge and ask him/her to describe the computer database systems used in the company. Write your answer in 1-2 paragraphs. Further, ask also the benefits and/or disadvantages derived from these database systems.

The General Santos City Hospital is using a ABSOLUTE DATABASE. This features SQL 92 support, single database file with advance cache management and buffering architecture, multi user and up to 32TB maximum size.

According to Mr. Alex Dagmil, the Head IT officer in the hospital, this is one of the most advance yet very much simplified database in the hospital operation. It manages the entire system of the hospital and can relate to the ENGAS system that the city government is basing, ENGAS is also required by the Commission on Audit for Local Government Units (LGU). The size of the system is 100% plus compare to conventional one.

The disadvantage on this kind of database is that the programmer has no features of referential integrity.

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