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  • abbreviation database management system

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  • initialism software Initialism of DataBase Management System.

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Examples

  • DBMS is still okay although it's starting to show signs of being a subject we'd all have to work and study hard for ... we're studying ERD models which is so damn complicated and isn't very interesting.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • This is referred to as DBMS or a Database Management System.

    Security Sony | Surveillance 2009

  • A DBMS is a software tool that allows multiple users to store, access, and process data into useful information.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows buibaba 2010

  • Moving things like sorts away from the DBMS is a very, very bad thing, performancewise ...

    OSNews 2009

  • His message, however, is eerily familiar: DW appliances redress the shortcomings -- typically poor query performance, which Young said is best measured by breaches in service-level agreements, or SLAs -- of brand-name DBMS warehouses.

    Redmond | News 2009

  • A DBMS is a sophisticated kind of software that supports the creation of databases, and provides efficient and secure access to them.

    Socialtext Customer Exchange: Recent Changes 2008

  • A DBMS is a sophisticated kind of software that supports the creation of databases, and provides efficient and secure access to them.

    Socialtext Customer Exchange: Recent Changes 2008

  • For a mature product such as DBMS-X, the cations, we did not have to modify the code despite several changes entire experience was indeed disappointing.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • I got the results on my DBMS special exams today ...

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • A study released today by a team of leading database experts, among them Structure 09 speaker Michael Stonebraker, has been generating buzz for its assertion that clustered SQL database management systems (DBMS) actually perform significantly better for most tasks than does cloud golden child MapReduce.

    MapReduce vs. SQL: It’s Not One or the Other 2009

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