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Databases
Term | Definition |
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Ascending | sort order arranging text or numbers from A to Z, from smallest or largest, or from earliest to latest |
Databases | A Collection of organized data that allows access, retrieval and use of data |
Data type | indicates the type of data that can be stored in a field |
Descending | sort order arranging text or numbers from Z to A, from largest to smallest, or from latest to earliest |
Field | a single characteristic of data that appears i a table as a coulumn |
Field name | a name that identifies a field |
form | a database view that allows the user to see all fields for one record and enter them one at a time |
primary key | a field that uniquely identifies a record in a table |
query | a question presented in a way that allows the database to process and generate specific data from one or more tables |
recordd | a collection of fields that appears as a row in a database or table |
report | a document that uses data from tables and/or quries; the user controls which items in the databases will appear in the report and how it is filtered or sorted |
sort | to arrange a list of words in ascending or desending order |
table | a database view of information arranged in a grid of rows and columns |