Editing Database (section)

==Miscellaneous features==

Other DBMS features might include:

* [[Database log]]s – This helps in keeping a history of the executed functions.
* Graphics component for producing graphs and charts, especially in a data warehouse system.
* [[Query optimizer]] – Performs query optimization on every query to choose an efficient ''[[query plan]]'' (a partial order (tree) of operations) to be executed to compute the query result. May be specific to a particular storage engine.
* Tools or hooks for database design, application programming, application program maintenance, database performance analysis and monitoring, database configuration monitoring, DBMS hardware configuration (a DBMS and related database may span computers, networks, and storage units) and related database mapping (especially for a distributed DBMS), storage allocation and database layout monitoring, storage migration, etc.

Increasingly, there are calls for a single system that incorporates all of these core functionalities into the same build, test, and deployment framework for database management and source control. Borrowing from other developments in the software industry, some market such offerings as "[[DevOps]] for database".<ref>{{cite web
| title = How Database Administration Fits into DevOps |author= Ben Linders |date= January 28, 2016
| url = https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/01/database-administration-devops
| access-date = April 15, 2017 }}</ref>