Synopsis The Icfai Dictionary of Database Management Systems(DBMS) terms is addressed to students, teachers, practitioners and general readers who want to follow DBMS discussions in the class and elsewhere, or whose daily work demands some familiarity with the terminologies of Database functions like Database development process, Database Analysis, Database Design, Implementation, Queries, Applications, Database Administration and Advances in DBMS etc. The dictionary also addresses terms from the conceptual level to the advanced level in a precise manner. It aims to provide a comprehensive companion to support other reading in a discipline which employs remarkably similar terminology. This dictionary is a guide to the main ideas and teaching connected with the basics of and advances in DBMS. The book is designed in such a way that it covers the salient facts and features of various points of DBMS and, also explores DBMS development from technology and business perspectives. Over 2000 entries define and explain clearly the salient facts within the context of Database Management Systems. Its store of up to date information is sure to appeal to active managers, teachers and students of information systems.