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Database Management
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The DML statement used to choose data from a database. The result is stored in a temporary table - called the result-set.
Many-to-many Relationship
Select
Text Box
Functional Dependency
2. A query that removes records which match the criteria you specify from one or more tables
Database Management System (DBMS)
Delete Query
Join
SQL
3. No multiple multi-valued dependencies.
SQL
Totals Query
Fourth Normal Form
Database Diagram
4. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Transitive Dependency
First Normal Form
Table Window
Self-Join
5. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.
Database Management System (DBMS)
Action Query
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
First Normal Form
6. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Fourth Normal Form
Trigger
One-To-One Relationship
Where clause
7. A database object that prints information formatted and organised according to your specifications.
Metadata
Functional Dependency
Cardinality
Report
8. A graphical representation of any portion of a database scheme.
Database Diagram
Column
Determinant
E-R diagram
9. The actual pieces of facts that are stored in the fields in a database table.
Second Normal Form
Hierarchical Database
Data
Access 2007
10. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.
Database Window
Record
Criteria
Comparison Operator
11. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Criteria
Data Definiton Language
Column
Normalization
12. Candidate key selected for use.
Many-to-Many Relationships
Recursive Dependency
Third Normal Form
Primary Key
13. A normalization which falls between 3NF and 4NF and involves the elimination of non-trivial dependencies
Key
Calculated Field
Composite Key
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
14. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
Flat File
Schema
Design Vie
E-R diagram
15. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.
Action Query
Best Normal Form
Many-to-many Relationship
Recursive Dependency
16. The components of a data abase i.e. tables - queries - forms - reports - pages - macros and modules.
Third Normal Form
Many-to-many Relationship
Index
Database Object
17. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
Currency Data Type
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Determinant
Transitive Dependency
18. An association/link established between common fields in two different tables. A relationship can be one-to-one - many-to-many or more usually one-to-many.
One-To-Many Relationship
Relation
Access 2007
Design Vie
19. 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
Field
Totals Query
Super key
Hierarchical Database
20. A record as seen in the data sheet view.
Row
Aggregate Function
Comparison Operator
First Normal Form
21. 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.
Autonumber
SQL
Schema
Calculated Field
22. 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
Delete Query
Design Vie
Functional Dependency
23. Data from a table - form - query which is displayed in a row-and-column format.
Second Normal Form
Data Sheet
SQL
Database Diagram
24. A primary key that is comprised of more than one field.
Trigger
Composite Key
Candidate Key
Form
25. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Composite Key
Transact
Currency Data Type
Data Warehouse
26. 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.
Make Table Query
Comparison Operator
Query
Third Normal Form
27. Many-to-many relationships occur when each record in TableA may have 0 - 1 or many linked records in TableB and vice-versa.
Select Query
Data
Many-to-Many Relationships
Data Type
28. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Calculated Field
Database Management System (DBMS)
Transact
Hierarchical Database
29. This is an exact numeric data type that holds from 10^38 - 1 through 10^38 - 1.
Numeric Data Type
Hierarchical Database
Database
Data Definiton Language
30. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
Access 2007
Database
Design Vie
Report
31. Functional dependency involving only non-key attributes.
Hierarchical Database
Primary Key
Transitive Dependency
First Normal Form
32. The persons or things that a database table is about.
Entities
Functional Dependency
Primary Key
Currency Data Type
33. Specialized engines designed specifically to store objects. Users can interact with objects only through designated methods.
Cardinality
Calculated Field
Relational Database Model
Object-Oriented Database
34. The process of organizing data to minimize redundancy and produce smaller - well-structured relations/tables.
Flat File
One-To-Many Relationship
Normalization
SQL
35. A database object on which you place controls for entering - displaying and editing records in a table.
Form
Data Manipulation Language
Composite Key
Report
36. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.
Relation
Alternate Key
Totals Query
Transact
37. A feature that speeds up searching and sorting in a table based on key values and can enforce uniqueness on the rows of a table.
Field
Foreign Key
Expression Builder
Index
38. DOC MADE UP
Database
SQL View
Many-to-many Relationship
Recursive Dependency
39. A table which is not only in 2NF but whose non-primary key fields are dependent only on the primary key and therefore have no dependence on (relationship to) any other non-primary key field in the table.
Third Normal Form
Access
Table
Calculated Field
40. A self-describing collection of integrated tables. The tables are called integrated because they store data about the relationships between the rows of data.
Foreign Key
Database
Primary Key
Autonumber
41. Knowingly violates one or more rules of normalization.
Third Normal Form
Autonumber
Best Normal Form
SQL View
42. A Key composed of more than one attribute.
One-To-Many Relationship
Report
First Normal Form
Compound Key
43. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
Fourth Normal Form
Many-to-many Relationship
Key
Normalization
44. 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
Database Management System (DBMS)
Column
Table Window
45. 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.
E-R diagram
Candidate Key
Entity Relationship Diagram
Autonumber
46. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
SQL
View
Fourth Normal Form
Tuple
47. The process of examining and analyzing data with a view to extracting patterns from it. It is usually done on data warehouses
Data Mining
Object-Oriented Database
Many-to-many Relationship
Join
48. A characteristic of the items in a database i.e. a field
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Attribute
Sort
Data Model
49. This is a property of data which - when satisfied - requires every value of one field (attribute) of a table to exist as a value of another field in another related table.
Referential Integrity
Normalization
First Normal Form
Design Vie
50. 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.
Primary Key
Data Manipulation Language
Record
Secondary Key