A university database contains an Instructor record type wit…

A university database contains an Instructor record type with fields:ID, name, dept_name, and salary. An HR application allows department heads to view only the instructor names and departments, but not salaries.Which level of data abstraction is primarily being applied in this case?

A banking application sends a query to retrieve all customer…

A banking application sends a query to retrieve all customers with balances above $10,000. Before the data is fetched, the system first checks query syntax, determines an efficient access path using indexes, and creates an execution plan. Which database system component performs these steps?