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The Database Management System

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A database management system is the software package used to define, create, use, and maintain a database with appropriate security — the system standing between every user and the data.

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A transit agency's ridership records live behind one such system, not in loose files.

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The database approach beat file storage on efficiency, consistency, maintenance.