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F IGURE 14.1
A stand-alone PC
In Chapter 12, we talked about client/server systems. In the simplest
client/server systems, there are two classes of computers, as shown in Figure 14.2.
The client computers are end-user PCs that are all connected to a server computer
on a local-area network. The server contains the application programs, the database
management system, and the database that all of the clients share. When an end-user
wants to run an application or retrieve data from the shared database, the client
PC
PC
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Data
base
Server
PC
F IGURE 14.2
Basic client/server system
PC
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