Database Users

There are basically four types of Database Users. These are:

•  Application programmers are computer professionals who write application programs or front end interfaces. They can choose tools such as Rapid Application Development (RAD) to develop front end interfaces such as forms and reports with minimal programming effort.

• Sophisticated users interact with the system without writing programs. They form their requests to the system such as a database query language e.g, SQL.

•  Specialized users are sophisticated users who write specialized database applications such as computer-aided design (CAD), knowledge-base and expert systems that store complex data such as graphics and audio data and environment-modeling systems.

• Naive users are unsophisticated users who interact with the system by invoking one of the application forms that have been written previously where the naïve users fill in the fields of the form and hit the button. They may also simply read reports generated from the database

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