Assembling all data at a single location reduces redundancy.
Maintenance costs decrease because of better organization and reduced data duplication.
Applications become data independent so that multiple applications can use the same data and can evolve separately over time.
User knowledge can be transferred between applications more easily because the database remains constant.
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The Advantages of Database over traditional file based datasets:
Data sharingis facilitated and a corporate view of data can be provided to all managers and users.
Security and standardsfor data and data access can be established and enforced.
DBMS are better suited to managing large numbers of concurrent users working with vast amounts of data.