The database has 3 levels as shown in the diagram below
1. Physical/Internal
2. Conceptual
3. External
Consider an Example of a University Database. At the different levels this is how the implementation will look like:
Type of Schema | Implementation |
External Schema | View 1: Course info(cid:int,cname:string) View 2: studeninfo(id:int.name:string) |
Conceptual Shema | Students(id: int, name: string, login: string , age: integer) Courses(id: int, cname.string, credits:integer) Enrolled(id: int, grade:string) |
Physical Schema |
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