Chapter 10 - Database Management
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| show | access privileges
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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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| show | after image
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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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| show | attribute
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| Application that supports a front-end program. | show 🗑
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| Duplicate or copy of a file, program, or disk that can be used if the original is lost, damaged, or destroyed. | show 🗑
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| show | backward recovery
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| Copy of a database file before changes were made. | show 🗑
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| show | BLOB
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| show | Boolean
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| show | CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script
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| A number, letter, punctuation mark, or other symbol that is represented by a single byte in the ASCII and EBCDIC coding schemes. | show 🗑
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| show | check digit
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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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| show | column
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| show | completeness check
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| show | composite key
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| Database that stores data about engineering, architectural, and scientific designs. | show 🗑
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| Validity check that tests the data in two or more associated field to ensure that the relationship is logical and their data is in the correct format. | show 🗑
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| Backup plan in which all data is backed up whenever a change is made. | show 🗑
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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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| show | data entry form
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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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| Process used with data warehouses to find patterns and relationships among data. | show 🗑
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| Rules and standards that define how a database organizes data. | show 🗑
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| show | data modeler
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| Specifies the kind of data a field in a database can contain and how the field can be used. | show 🗑
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| show | data warehouse
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| Collection of data organized in a manner that allows access retrieval, and use of that data. | show 🗑
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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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| show | database management system (DBMS)
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| show | database server
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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 management system (DBMS). | show 🗑
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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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| Electronic form used as a means to secure data while it is transported across a network. | show 🗑
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| show | electronic form
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| show | field
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| show | field name
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| show | field size
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| show | file maintenance
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| show | file processing system
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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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| show | GIS
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| show | groupware database
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| show | hypercube
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| show | hypermedia database
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| show | hypertext database
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| show | information
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| show | log
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| show | metadata
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| show | multidimensional database
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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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| show | numeric check
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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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| show | object-oriented database (OODB)
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| show | object-relational databases
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| show | organized information
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| Field in a database that uniquely identifies each record in a file. | show 🗑
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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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| Request for specific data from a database. | show 🗑
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| show | query by example (QBE)
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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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| show | recovery utility
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| show | relation
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| show | relational database
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| Link within the data in a database. | show 🗑
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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 writer. | show 🗑
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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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| show | rollforward
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| Term used by users of relational databases for record. | show 🗑
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| show | Structured Query Language (SQL)
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| show | table
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| show | timely information
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| Term used by developers of relational databases for record. | show 🗑
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| Information that has meaning to the person who receives it. | show 🗑
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| Process of comparing data with a set of rules or values to find out if the data is correct. | show 🗑
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| show | validation rules
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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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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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