Chapter 10 - Database Management
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| Restrictions that establish who can enter new data, change existing data, delete unwanted data, and view data in a database. | show 🗑
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| Information that is available when the decision maker needs it. | show 🗑
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| Information that is error free. | show 🗑
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| Copy of a database file after changes were made. | show 🗑
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| Validity check that ensures users enter only alphabetic data in a field. | show 🗑
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| Text that can include letters, numbers, or special characters. | show 🗑
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| Each data element in an object. Also called a property. | show 🗑
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| Application that supports a front-end program. | show 🗑
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| show | backup
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| Technique for recovering data in a database where the DBMS uses the log to undo any changes made to a database during a certain period, such as an hour. See also rollback. | show 🗑
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| Copy of a database file before changes were made. | show 🗑
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| Binary large object. | show 🗑
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| show | Boolean
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| show | CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script
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| show | character
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| Validity check consisting of a number(s) or character(s) that is appended to or inserted in a primary key value. | show 🗑
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| Web databases where users store and share photos, videos, recordings, and other personal media with other registered users. | show 🗑
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| Term used by users of relational databases for field. | show 🗑
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| show | completeness check
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| Primary key that consists of multiple fields. | show 🗑
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| show | computer-aided design (CAD) database
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| show | consistency check
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| show | continuous backup
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| show | cost-effective information
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| show | data
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| show | data dictionary
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| Window on the screen that provides areas for entering or changing data in a database. See also form. | show 🗑
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| show | data file
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| The quality of data that is entered in a database. | show 🗑
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| Smaller version of a data warehouse that contains a database that helps a specific group or department make decisions. | show 🗑
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| show | data mining
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| show | data model
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| show | data modeler
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| show | data type
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| show | data warehouse
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| show | database
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| Person who creates and maintains the data dictionary, manages security of a database, monitors the performance of a database, and checks backup and recovery procedures. | show 🗑
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| Person who focuses on the meaning and usage of data, including proper placement of fields, defining the relationships among data, and identifying users’ access privileges. See also data modeler. | show 🗑
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| show | database approach
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| Program that allows user to create a computerized database; add, change, and delete data in the database, sort and retrieve data from the database; and create forms and reports from the data in the database. See also database software. | show 🗑
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| Computer that stores and provides access to a database. | show 🗑
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| show | database software
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| show | default value
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| Database in which the data exists in many separate locations throughout a network or the Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | e-form
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| A form that sends entered data across a network or the Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | field
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| show | field name
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| Defines the maximum number of characters a field can contain. | show 🗑
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| Procedures that keep data current. | show 🗑
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| System used to store and manage data in which each department or area within an organization has its own set of files. | show 🗑
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| Window on the screen that provides areas for entering or changing data in a database. See also data entry form. | show 🗑
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| show | forward recovery
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| show | front end
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| Computing phrase that points out the accuracy of a computer’s output depends on the accuracy of the input. | show 🗑
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| Geographic information system. Type of database that stores maps and other geographic data. | show 🗑
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| Database that stores documents such as schedules, calendars, manuals, memos, and reports. | show 🗑
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| The multiple dimensions in which data is stored in a multidimensional database. | show 🗑
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| show | hypermedia database
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| Database that contains text links to other types of documents. | show 🗑
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| show | information
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| show | log
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| show | metadata
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| Database that stores data in dimensions. | show 🗑
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| show | multimedia database
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| Process designed to ensure the data within the relations (tables) in a database contains the least amount of duplication. | show 🗑
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| Validity check that ensures users enter only numeric data in a field | show 🗑
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| Database item that contains data, as well as the actions that read or process the data. | show 🗑
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| show | object query language (OQL)
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| Database that stores data in objects. | show 🗑
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| Databases that combine features of the relational and object-oriented data models. | show 🗑
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| show | organized information
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| show | primary key
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| Policy adopted by some organizations, where users' access privileges are limited to the lowest level necessary to perform required tasks. | show 🗑
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| show | query
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| DBMS feature that has a graphical user interface to assist users with retrieving data. | show 🗑
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| show | query language
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| Validity check that determines whether a number is within a specified range. | show 🗑
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| show | record
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| DBMS feature that uses logs and/or backups to restore a database when it becomes damaged or destroyed. | show 🗑
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| Term used by developers of relational databases for file. | show 🗑
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| Database that stores data in tables that consist of rows and columns, with each row having a primary key and each column having a unique name. | show 🗑
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| Link within the data in a database. | show 🗑
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| show | report generator
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| DBMS feature that allows users to design a report on the screen, retrieve data into the report design, and then display or print the report. See also report generator. | show 🗑
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| A DBMS element that contains data about each file in a database and each field in those files. See also data dictionary. | show 🗑
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| show | rollback
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| Technique for recovering data in a database where the DBMS uses the log to reenter changes made to the database since the last save or backup. See also forward recovery. | show 🗑
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| Term used by users of relational databases for record. | show 🗑
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| Query language used with databases that allows users to manage, update, and retrieve data. | show 🗑
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| show | table
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| Information that has an age suited to its use. | show 🗑
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| show | tuple
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| Information that has meaning to the person who receives it. | show 🗑
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| show | validation
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| Check that analyzes entered data to help ensure that it is correct. See also validity check. | show 🗑
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| Check that analyzes entered data to help ensure that it is correct. See also validation rules. | show 🗑
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| Information that can be proven as correct or incorrect. | show 🗑
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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