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Access Terms
Unit 4: Database
Term | Definition |
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Ascending | Sort order arranging text or nubers from A to Z, from smallest to largest, or from the earliest to lastest |
Database | A collection of organized data that allows access, retrival, and use of data |
Data Type | Idicates 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 lastest to earliest |
Field | A single charecteristic of data that appears in a table as a column |
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 tabes |
Record | A collection of fields that appear as a row in a database or tabel |
Report | A document that uses from tables and/or queiries; the user controls which items in the database will apear in the report and how it is filtered or sorted |
Sort | To arrange a list of words or numbers in ascending or descending order |
Tabel | A database view of information in a grid of rows and columns |