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- Physical representation of the database
- Lowest level of abstractions •
- It is how the data is stored, dealing with
- Run-time performance
- Storage utilization & compression
- File organization & access methods
- Data encryption
- Physical level – managed by OS
- Provide concepts that describe the details of how data is stored in the computer’s memory
- 1965 reads