Practical use of Database In Business and Industries

As we all know , the Database has huge applications in today’s life. As we are becoming more digital we are generating humongous digital data like photos, videos, text-based files, electronic books, and e-newspapers , healthcare data, transactional data, insurance data etc which is now a part of our day-to-day activity. We need to store those data electronically in computer systems with the hep of databases or DBMS so that data can be managed in a readable format, also can be retrieve when required for our future references. To keep all the data in a structured way, so that it can be accessed and utilize that as per our requirement we need DB an DBMS along with SQL which can make our work easy . SQL helps in modifying, updating, accessing and quick retrieval of relevant data.

So, In this article we are going to see how Database is extensively used everywhere. How Business and Industries are bound to have database systems and how DB is useful to in varied Business and Industries.

1. Application in healthcare Industry

In Healthcare industry DB is used extensively for ensuring compliance and accurate reporting of patient details like medication information , prescriptions , health plan details, insurance and related claims, also staff details, billing facility, Lab details, in-stock medicine details etc, we can track patient health records on daily basis in computers. As we know healthcare industries deal with billions of data every day related to patients, medicines, hospital equipments, machines used in various disease care like cancer, liver transplant,PCR machines, incubators and thousands of medical equipments using electronic data. It is not possible to maintain those huge data in registers and keep them in sync and not even possible to retrieve it as fast as a DB can do. Hence DBMS are used widely in health care industry like by hospitals,by pharmacy, by Bio-chemical industries, blood banks, insurance companies all maintains their own DB to keep their data safe and in structured way for a useful purpose. As we know in every DBMS maintaining, controlling , updating and modifying any data can be completed within fractions of seconds as it has high scalability and maintains integrity of data.

2. Application in e-Commerce

Amazon, Flipkart, Shopify, B2Bsales, Retail, Pay-TM, Blink it, Grofers, Swiggy, Myntra, Insta mart, Jiomart Meesho, AJIO ans many more. We have thousands of electronic commerce websites wtypically deals with online purchase and selling of goods and services via internet where they have to maintain customer details, product details like product ordered , product returned, in-stock product, defective products, customer ratings , customer payments (success/failure) details, product tracking details like product shipped/delivered ,they also have to maintain their staff(delivery boy, engineer, in-house staff, packaging staff) details and contacts for their business purpose , which constitute vast structure of e-commerce and their complexity, still e commerce websites are flourishing with high customer satisfaction and which made our life easy. If we need any thing at our door steps we just pick up our phone install the relevant e commerce application via play-store and with very minimal details providing to the app we can order our required items instantly. So cool, So to all these work easy they have whole Database systems and DBMS tools in-house to make this a easy task maintaining the integrity of business , also these business required high scalability and reliability to have customers faith All these can be achieved with the help of Databases and DBMS systems. So basically E-commerce allows to place an order via online stores or websites which includes Placing an order online, modifying an order , processing payments details, order delivery tracking and successful delivery of a order. All these process includes extensive use and implication of a Database which basically maintains the latest data every second. Which this flexibility of DBMS e-commerce cannot flourish.

3. Application in HOTEL reservation Industries

Hotel industry has bloomed a thousand times with easy hotel booking and lakhs of hotels listed online. The world has become a traveler. Before reaching destination we can have hotel rooms booked for our trip, hotel industry have customer data, managing reservations, booking details like booked/canceled, hotel details, facility details, staff details , payments gateways for easy customer support. Sitting in one corner of India we can book any hotel in U.S.A/Canada/Europe isn't fascinating. Yes, this has achieved via Relational database systems which holds million of customer data and hotel records where booking made via online hotel apps in any hotel aroung the world.
he core of a hotel's database system is typically its Property Management System (PMS), which integrates with many other specialized systems.
Guest details (name, contact info, ID, nationality)
Past stay history, preferences (e.g., preferred room type, pillow type, dietary restrictions)
Booking details (check-in/out dates, number of guests, room type, special requests)
Reservation status (confirmed, pending, cancelled, no-show)
Pricing and package details
Room inventory (room numbers, room types, bed configurations)
Room status (clean, dirty, occupied, vacant, out-of-order)

4. Application in Banking Industries

As we understand that Banks and Insurance company deals with very sensitive customer related information and monetary data such as financial details of customers having relationship with banks and insurance companies. They believe in banking organization that their data is safe and will not be misused by such institution, to achieve this banking systems need huge Database space to store their customer related information such as financial transactions, deposits, withdrawals and transfer details in their systems also all tax related details etc, banks and ATMs work in real time environment where every second thousands of activities occurs like instant ATM cash withdrawals/deposits/account opening/account closing/ loans/KYC/ Adhaar update/claims/cheque deposits and many more. To achieve such demanding environment fulfill the purpose relational databases have ACID framework ACID property where A stands for ATOMICITY , C for CONSISTENCY and I for ISOLATION of data. (for more ACID propertites click on the link ACID this can be achieved the DBMS as they .
Same, for Insurance companies details with customer data, policy details, claims details, insurer details, claim amount settlement huge settle every thing can be managed via RDBMS , though help of RDBMS company can easily find who is the insurer and what amount can be paid to them using SQL queries. It makes work easy, keep required data in managed way , tracks installments can easily track defaulters, easily track who are not eligible for any insurance. DB has huge implications and its extensively used worldwide by banks and Insurance campaniles for their easy and accurate transactions without any errors.

5. Application in AIRLINE Industries

In Airline companies Database plays crucial role for ticket booking//cancellation, crew scheduling, flight scheduling,flight details, staff management,aircraft maintenance, passenger information, which include ticket booking, holding customer details, seat availability, and booking history were among the earliest users of database technologies. Here databases should be much efficient to manage reliability and can maintain real time data. Just think if we do not have the online reservation for flights what amount of efforts was required to board a flight. This has made the whole world and easy connect. Millions of people traveling via airlines to connect different parts of world. Since Airlines have to maintain every details like instant booking/ cancellation, flight delays details/ flights rescheduling, flights maintenance records on real time basis , so they need very efficient and robust Database system which can include multiple RDBMS and databases servers to handle smooth functioning of Airline industry.
DB has made the AIR ticketing and traveling more convenient for both end user and Industry people.

6. Application in Social Media

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snap chat, Linked in, Tik-tok , print rest are part of our day-to-day life which brings the whole world on single platform now no one feels far away,we can connect to any person over social site sitting in any corner of the world , for that we uses electronic data in the form of Images, Videos, texts. As we all are aware that even any single click such as like and comments on a social media platforms are stored and as per reports 5.4 billion people use social media. So if these amount of people having comments, likes shares, uploading images and videos, so just think about the volume of data getting generated every single minute and getting stored into a Data base without any failure and maintain the integrity of every record. A well maintained and optimized DBMS is invested to manage the humongous amount of user generated content.
These famous handles uses efficient management and complex algorithms to deals with the huge posts , comments , images upload, video uploads, likes and other relevant facilities on their plat forms and maintain the reliability of their social sites.