Significance and Use Cases
Record-at-a-time is processing method in DBMS which is very popular and widely used in DBMS for various operations and computation such as data manipulation, data transformation and reporting. This method is very useful when dealing with very large dataset that cannot be load once in memory. This processing method not requiring excessive memory resources.
This processing method is commonly used when data needs to be processed sequentially such as generating reports, performing data validations, or applying conditions on specific records.
What is Record-at-a-Time in DBMS?
A database management system (DBMS) is a software system that is used to manage databases. In a database management system, there are various approaches to accessing the data from the databases. Record-at-a-time is one of the approaches in database management systems. Record-at-a-time is a processing method in DBMS in which each row or record can be processed individually and sequentially.
In this method DBMS process one record at a time and it process until all the records have been processed. In this article we will learn the concept of Record-at-a-time, its significance, its advantage, and frequently asked questions.