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`1. A database management system provides a set of integrated data management services or tools which are used to maintain and manage logical groupings of data or information.In this branch of mathematics, a table is called a relation. 2. Codds original theory was based on 12 principles. (1)The first is that all data in an RDBMS is stored in tables. (2)Another principle is that you need a language to retrieve or manipulate data in these tables. This language is known as SQL and is part of the relational theory. 3. A table consists of columns and rows. Columns are the attributes of the entit