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Database Management
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1. 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.
Row
Third Normal Form
Trigger
Totals Query
2. In an access databse - a window in which you work with tables in design view or datasheet view.
Table Window
Query
Data Sheet
Object-Oriented Database
3. A type of computer file system that stores all data in a single file.
Flat File
Domain/Key Normal Form
Currency Data Type
Relation
4. A value that is automatically entered in a field or control when you add a new record.
Entities
Default Value
Data Definiton Language
Sort
5. Arrange the records in a view set in order according to a particular field
Domain/Key Normal Form
Report
Sort
Super key
6. A primary key that is comprised of more than one field.
Composite Key
One-To-One Relationship
Data Type
One-To-Many Relationship
7. The persons or things that a database table is about.
Totals Query
One-To-Many Relationship
Entities
Group
8. 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.
Autonumber
Relational Database Model
Domain/Key Normal Form
Third Normal Form
9. A database object that stores data in records and fields. The data is usually about a particular category of things.
Table
Join
Primary Key
Totals Query
10. 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
Join
Column Selector
Recursive Dependency
Compound Key
11. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
Data Definiton Language
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
View
Delete Query
12. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Transitive Dependency
Candidate Key
Database Management System (DBMS)
Data Definiton Language
13. 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).
Data Type
Comparison Operator
Object-Oriented Database
Select Query
14. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
Action Query
Record
Make Table Query
Trigger
15. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
Schema
View
Determinant
Null
16. One (or more fields) in a table that refer to the primary key in another table.
Numeric Data Type
Foreign Key
Cardinality
Self-Join
17. An MS Access tool that simplifies a task. For example - you can quickly create a complex expression with the Expression Builder.
First Normal Form
Expression Builder
Select
Tuple
18. An organised pool of related data files which can be easily accessed and managed and that may be used by a number of different application programs
Object-Oriented Database
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Primary Key
Database
19. A field - set up in a query - that displays the result of an evaluated expression rather than displaying stored data.The value of the calculated field is re-calculated each time a value in the expression changes.
Calculated Field
Many-to-Many Relationships
Make Table Query
Best Normal Form
20. 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.
Multi-valued Dependency
Determinant
Index
Database Diagram
21. Contents of a Database: Tables of user data - Metadata - Indexes - Stored Procedures - _______ - Security Data - Backup/Recovery Data
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Data Definiton Language
Design Vie
Triggers
22. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database
Index
Hierarchical Database
One-To-One Relationship
Data Manipulation Language
23. Specialized engines designed specifically to store objects. Users can interact with objects only through designated methods.
Alternate Key
Record
Object-Oriented Database
View
24. The DBMS language component used to create - alter and destroy databases and database objects i.e. schemas - tables - views - sequences - catalogs - indexes - and aliases.
Many-to-many Relationship
Data Definiton Language
SQL View
Database Object
25. A database object that prints information formatted and organised according to your specifications.
Entity Relationship Diagram
Null
Report
Hierarchical Database
26. 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.
Column Selector
Check Box
Second Normal Form
One-To-One Relationship
27. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Referential Integrity Constraint
Data Warehouse
Action Query
Multi-valued Dependency
28. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.
Object-Oriented Database
Cardinality
Column Selector
Primary Key
29. A Key composed of more than one attribute.
Compound Key
Fourth Normal Form
Normalization
Third Normal Form
30. Two or more controls that can be treated as one unit while designing a form or report. You can select the group instead of selecting each individual control as you are arranging controls or assigning properties.
Super key
Group
Autonumber
Compound Key
31. A record as seen in the data sheet view.
Row
E-R diagram
Record
Third Normal Form
32. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Where clause
Primary Key
Fourth Normal Form
Trigger
33. A field data type that automatically stores a unique number for each record as it is added to a table.
Check Box
Form
Normalization
Autonumber
34. Stored procedures that may be configured to automatically execute (fire) when certain events take place.
Hierarchical Database
Trigger
Referential Integrity Constraint
Action Query
35. 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.
Secondary Key
Database Object
Recursive Dependency
Access
36. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.
Fourth Normal Form
Expression Builder
Normalization
Record
37. The actual pieces of facts that are stored in the fields in a database table.
Composite Key
Data
Fourth Normal Form
Second Normal Form
38. This is an exact numeric data type that holds from 10^38 - 1 through 10^38 - 1.
Database Window
Numeric Data Type
Check Box
Transitive Dependency
39. Dependency where determinant determines a list of values.
Data
Numeric Data Type
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Multi-valued Dependency
40. A link between two or more tables.
Compound Key
Data Sheet
Third Normal Form
Join
41. A database object on which you place controls for entering - displaying and editing records in a table.
Primary Key
SQL View
Database Diagram
Form
42. A query that removes records which match the criteria you specify from one or more tables
Transaction
Where clause
Delete Query
Hierarchical Database
43. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
SQL View
Compound Key
Object-Oriented Database
Field
44. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Hierarchical Database
Query
Transaction
45. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Self-Join
Candidate Key
Table
Transact
46. A function such as sum - count or average that you use to include summary data in a report.
First Normal Form
Secondary Key
Aggregate Function
Data
47. 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.
Select
Access 2007
Make Table Query
Data Model
48. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Criteria
Compound Key
Column
SQL View
49. Data about data.
Metadata
Attribute
Data Sheet
One-To-One Relationship
50. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.
Report
View
Action Query
Column