A database management system (DBMS) is a computer software application that interacts with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data. A general-purpose DBMS is designed to allow the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases. Well-known DBMSs include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, SAP HANA, and IBM DB2. A database is not generally portable across different DBMSs, but different DBMS can interoperate by using standards such as SQL and ODBC or JDBC to allow a single application to work with more than one DBMS. Database management systems are often classified according to the database model that they support; the most popular database systems since the 1980s have all supported the relational model as represented by the SQL language.[disputed discuss] Sometimes a DBMS is loosely referred to as a 'database'.

Formally, a "database" refers to a set of related data and the way it is organized. Access to these data is usually provided by a "database management system" (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database (although restrictions may exist that limit access to particular data). The DBMS provides various functions that allow entry, storage and retrieval of large quantities of information and provides ways to manage how that information is organized.

Answer this series of questions:

1. What's a DBMS?
2. And what does it stand for?
3. What did "database" use to mean?
4. What is one well-known DBMS?
5. What is another?
6. How many are in total?
7. Name one of the standards used to interoperate DBMSs?
8. Name another?
9. Can you remember another popular DBMS?
10. One more maybe?
11. How are Database management systems generally classified?
12. What is the point of interoperating standards?
13. Name one thing provided by DBMS functions?
14. Can you name another?
15. Is this for small bits of info?
1. a computer software application that interacts with the user
2. database management system
3. a set of related data and the way it is organized
4. MySQL
5. PostgreSQL
6. Seven
7. SQL
8. JDBC
9. Microsoft SQL Server
10. Oracle
11. according to the database model
12. to allow a single application to work with more than one DBMS
13. allow entry
14. to manage how that information is organized
15. no