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Database Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The actual pieces of facts that are stored in the fields in a database table.
Trigger
One-To-Many Relationship
Totals Query
Data
2. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.
Best Normal Form
Referential Integrity
Transaction
Many-to-many Relationship
3. Table has no anomalies.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Row
Join
Sort
4. A primary key that is comprised of more than one field.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Composite Key
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Select
5. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
Data Mining
Relational Database Model
View
Currency Data Type
6. Functional dependency involving only non-key attributes.
Calculated Field
Fourth Normal Form
Tuple
Transitive Dependency
7. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Database
Index
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Criteria
8. The set of fields in a table which stores unique values and so any one from the list can be selected to be the primary key.
Database Diagram
Append Query
Candidate Key
Domain/Key Normal Form
9. The DBMS language component used to create - alter and destroy databases and database objects i.e. schemas - tables - views - sequences - catalogs - indexes - and aliases.
Table
Data Definiton Language
Numeric Data Type
Record
10. In an access databse - a window in which you work with tables in design view or datasheet view.
Many-to-many Relationship
Table
Make Table Query
Table Window
11. A control - also called an edit field - used on a form - report or data access page to display text or accept data entry.It can have a label attached to it.
Text Box
Sort
Hierarchical Database
Make Table Query
12. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
Key
Cardinality
One-To-One Relationship
Determinant
13. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Alternate Key
Relational Database Model
Composite Key
Transaction
14. Many-to-many relationships occur when each record in TableA may have 0 - 1 or many linked records in TableB and vice-versa.
Many-to-Many Relationships
Transaction
Data
Criteria
15. Data about data.
Data Warehouse
Calculated Field
Metadata
Data Definiton Language
16. A query that displays a summary calculation - such as an average or a sum - for values in a table or tables. A totals query is not a seperate kind of query; rather it extends the flexibility of select queries.
Select
Totals Query
Primary Key
Index
17. An MS Access tool that simplifies a task. For example - you can quickly create a complex expression with the Expression Builder.
Text Box
Entities
Expression Builder
Cardinality
18. A value that is automatically entered in a field or control when you add a new record.
Default Value
Data Warehouse
Text Box
Second Normal Form
19. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
Query
Third Normal Form
Multi-valued Dependency
Make Table Query
20. A database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database management systems (RDBMS) - database schema creation and modification - and database object access control management.
SQL
Candidate Key
Functional Dependency
Index
21. No partial functional-dependencies.
Text Box
Entity Relationship Diagram
Second Normal Form
Referential Integrity
22. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Metadata
Database
Where clause
Data Manipulation Language
23. A database object on which you place controls for entering - displaying and editing records in a table.
Aggregate Function
Form
View
Data Warehouse
24. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
One-To-Many Relationship
Database Diagram
Schema
Data Sheet
25. A question about the data stored in your tables - or a request to perform an action on the data. A query can bring together data from multiple tables to serve as the source of data for a form. report or data access page.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Determinant
Query
Data Integrity Rules
26. This is an exact numeric data type that holds from 10^38 - 1 through 10^38 - 1.
Flat File
Calculated Field
Numeric Data Type
Data Model
27. A query that asks a question about the data stored in your tables and returns a results set in the form of a data sheet without changing the actual data in the table(s).
Primary Key
Select Query
Triggers
Form
28. Stored procedures that may be configured to automatically execute (fire) when certain events take place.
Trigger
Database Window
Numeric Data Type
Functional Dependency
29. A database object that prints information formatted and organised according to your specifications.
SQL
Schema
Report
Recursive Dependency
30. A characteristic of a field that determines what kind of data it can store and what type of operations can be performed on it.
Data Type
Entity Relationship Diagram
First Normal Form
Field
31. An abstract model that documents and organizes the business data for communication between team members and is used as a plan for developing applications - specifically how data is stored and accessed.
Totals Query
Index
Query
Data Model
32. The horizontal bar at the top of a column. You can click a column selector to select the entire column in the query design grid or the filter design grid
Column Selector
Data Sheet
One-To-One Relationship
Flat File
33. The persons or things that a database table is about.
Sort
Entities
Numeric Data Type
Cardinality
34. A Key composed of more than one attribute.
First Normal Form
E-R diagram
Compound Key
Domain/Key Normal Form
35. A data model in which the data is organized into a tree-like structure. The structure allows representing information using parent/child relationships: each parent can have many children - but each child has only one parent
Database Diagram
Totals Query
Group
Hierarchical Database
36. A characteristic of the items in a database i.e. a field
Data Type
Criteria
Attribute
Fourth Normal Form
37. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Self-Join
Key
Domain/Key Normal Form
Secondary Key
38. An association between two tables in which the primary key value of each record in the primary table corresponds to the value in the matching field or fields of one and only one record in the related table.
One-To-One Relationship
Append Query
SQL
Group
39. A relation that contains no multivalued attributes.
First Normal Form
Where clause
Flat File
Referential Integrity
40. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
Foreign Key
Many-to-many Relationship
Database Diagram
Key
41. All determinants are candidate keys.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Totals Query
Calculated Field
Determinant
42. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.
Cardinality
Database Object
Trigger
Transact
43. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
Default Value
Primary Key
Currency Data Type
Null
44. A candidate key that coud have been the primary key but was not selected as such ; OR a field that is not the primary key but has been used for indexing nevertheless.
Key
Secondary Key
Form
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
45. A DBMS created by Microsoft - it is a collection of data and objects - such as tables - queries - or forms - related to a particular topic or purpose.
Select
Row
Fourth Normal Form
Access
46. The process of examining and analyzing data with a view to extracting patterns from it. It is usually done on data warehouses
Data Mining
Compound Key
Select Query
One-To-One Relationship
47. The DML statement used to choose data from a database. The result is stored in a temporary table - called the result-set.
Data
Select
Hierarchical Database
Text Box
48. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.
Secondary Key
Determinant
Primary Key
Best Normal Form
49. No Transitive Dependencies.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Schema
Database Window
Third Normal Form
50. DOC MADE UP
Recursive Dependency
Access
Secondary Key
Second Normal Form