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Insulation between Program and Data

16 October, 2015 - 17:33

In the file based system, the structure of the data files is defined in the application programs so if a user wants to change the structure of a file, all the programs that access that file might need to be changed as well. On the other hand, in the database approach, the data structure is stored in the system catalog not in the programs. Therefore, one change is all that’s needed.