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Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management

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Attributes   Pieces of information describing a particular entity  
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Data administration   A special organizational function for managing the organizations data resources, concerned with information policy, data planning, maintenance of data dicitonaries, and data quality standards.  
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Data cleansing   Activities for detecting and correcting data in a database or file that are incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or redundant. also known as data scrubbing.  
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Data definition   Specifies the structure of the content of a database  
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Data dictionary   An automated or manual tool for storing and organizing information about the data maintained in a database  
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Data manipulation language   A language assoiciated with a database management system that end users and programmers use to manipulate data in the database  
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Data mart   A small data warehouse containing only a portion of the organizations data for a specified function or population of users.  
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Data mining   Analysis of large pools of data to find patterns and rules that can be used to guide decision making and predict future behavior  
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Data quality audit   A servey and/or sample of files to determine accuracy and completeness of data in an information system.  
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Data warehouse   A database, with reporting and query tools, that stores current and historical data extracted from various operational systems and consolidated for management reporting and analysis.  
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Database   a group of related files. Also a collection of related files containing records on people, places, or things.  
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Database administration   Refers to the more technical and operational aspects of managing data, including physical database design and maintenance.  
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Database management system (DBMS)   Special software to create and maintain a database and enable individual business applications to extract the data they need without having to create seperate files or data definitions in their computer programs  
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Database server   A computer in a client/server environment that is responsible for runnign a DBMS to process SQL statements and perform database management tasks.  
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Entity   A person, place, thing, or event about which information must be kept.  
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Entity-relationship diagram   A methodology for documenting databases illustrating the relationship between various entities in the database.  
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Field   A grouping of characters into a word, a group of words, or a complete number, such as a person's name or age.  
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Foreign key   Field in a database table that enables users to find related information in another database table.  
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Information policy   Formal rules governing the maintenance, distribution, and use of information in an organization.  
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Key field   A field in a record that uniquely identifies instances of that record so that it can be retrieved, updated, or sorted.  
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Normalization   The process of creating small stable data structures from complex groups of data when designing a relational database.  
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Object-oriented DBMS   An approach to data managment that stores both data and the procedures acting on the data as objects that can be automatically retrieved and shared; the objects can contain multimedia.  
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Object-relational DBMS   A database management system that combines the capabilities of a relational DBMS for storing traditional information and the capabilities of an object-oriented DBMS for storing graphics and multimedia  
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Online analytical processing (OLAP)   Capability for manipulating and analyzing large volumes of data from multiple perspectives.  
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Predictive analytics   use of data mining techniques, historical data, and assumptions about future conditions to predict outcomes of events, such as the probability a customer will respond to an offer or purchase a specific product.  
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Primary key   Unique identifier for all the information in any row of a database table.  
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Records   group of related fields. Rows are commonly referred to as records.  
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Referential integrity   Rules to ensure that relationships between coupled database tables remain consistent.  
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Relational database   A type of logical database model that treats data as if they were stored in two-dimensional tables. It can relate data stored in one table to data in another as long as the two tables share a common data element.  
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Structured Query Language (SQL)   The standard data manipulation language for relational database managment systems.  
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Text mining   Discovery of patterns and relationships from large sets of unstructured data.  
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Tuples   Rows or records in a relational database.  
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Web mining   Discovery and analysis of useful patterns and information from the World Wide Web or (WWW)  
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