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Database Security

1.   What is database security? Why is it important? Also discuss the various security issues.

Ans: Database security refers to protecting the database against unauthorized access or manipulation. The database system manages large bodies of information which needs to be protected from unauthorized persons. Thus, security plays an important role in database systems.

Database security covers the following issues.

images Privacy: Only authorized persons should be allowed to access the database. In addition, only the part of the database that is required for the functions they perform should be available to them. In other words, users ...

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