View of Data
• Instances and Schemas
– Instances: The collection of information
stored in the database at a particular moment
– Database Schemas: The overall design of the
database
• The physical schema
– describes the database design at the physical level
• The logical schema
– describes the database design at the logical level.
• Subschemas
– A database may also have several schemas at the view
level, describe different views of the database.