Question 5617 – UGC NET CS 2013 June-paper-2

1. Physical (or) Internal view is at the lowest level of abstraction, closest to the physical storage method used. It indicates how the data will be stored and describes the data structures and access methods to be used by the database. There is one internal view for the entire database.
2. Global or Conceptual View : At this level of abstraction all the database entities and the relationships among them are included. There is one conceptual view for the entire database.
3. External or User View: The external or user view is at the highest level of database abstraction where only those portions of the database concern to a user or application programme are included. Any number if external or user views may exists for a given global or conceptual view.