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What is the difference between a database application and a database management system?

April 26, 2017application database difference Management system

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What is the difference between a database application and a database management system?

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A database application is a software program that performs a specific function that the user wants to accomplish. This could be to enter, retrieve, or process database information. This program could be written in a language such as C, or it could be written in a fourth generation language (4GL) that doesn’t even seem like programming. A database management system (DBMS) is not written in SQL. It takes statements written in SQL and applies them to the database to perform the entering, retrieving or processing required. Generally this SQL is embedded within the application program that could be written in C, Basic, or some other procedural language.