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Database Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. No partial functional-dependencies.
One-To-Many Relationship
Candidate Key
Transaction
Second Normal Form
2. A database object that prints information formatted and organised according to your specifications.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Recursive Dependency
Data
Report
3. A programming language designed for managing & obtaining data in relational database management systems (RDBMS)
Row
Access
SQL
First Normal Form
4. Data about data.
Calculated Field
Data Mining
Metadata
SQL
5. DOC MADE UP
Recursive Dependency
Database Management System (DBMS)
Index
Calculated Field
6. 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.
Second Normal Form
One-To-One Relationship
Data Warehouse
Domain/Key Normal Form
7. Knowing the value of one attribute you can determine the value of another attribute.
Functional Dependency
SQL View
Schema
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
8. A primary key that is comprised of more than one field.
Composite Key
Many-to-Many Relationships
Join
Aggregate Function
9. A characteristic of the items in a database i.e. a field
Text Box
Table
Attribute
Column
10. A relation that contains no multivalued attributes.
First Normal Form
Relational Database Model
Fourth Normal Form
Database Management System (DBMS)
11. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Data Warehouse
Totals Query
Design Vie
Object-Oriented Database
12. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
Transaction
SQL View
Determinant
Tuple
13. A record as seen in the data sheet view.
Fourth Normal Form
Many-to-Many Relationships
Database Management System (DBMS)
Row
14. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.
Primary Key
Entities
Third Normal Form
Super key
15. A section of a record containing data relating to one single characteristic of an entity; also called an attribute
Field
Foreign Key
Data Definiton Language
Expression Builder
16. a.k.a record
Select
Compound Key
Database
Tuple
17. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Data Mining
Database Management System (DBMS)
Null
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
18. Contents of a Database: Tables of user data - Metadata - Indexes - Stored Procedures - _______ - Security Data - Backup/Recovery Data
Triggers
Join
One-To-Many Relationship
Recursive Dependency
19. 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.
Select Query
Data Mining
Index
SQL
20. A field data type that automatically stores a unique number for each record as it is added to a table.
Report
Data Type
Autonumber
Trigger
21. Many-to-many relationships occur when each record in TableA may have 0 - 1 or many linked records in TableB and vice-versa.
Transact
Many-to-Many Relationships
Comparison Operator
Query
22. A database object that stores data in records and fields. The data is usually about a particular category of things.
E-R diagram
Table
Table Window
Determinant
23. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
Data
Make Table Query
Recursive Dependency
Query
24. A value that may be assigned to an attribute when no other value applies or when the applicable value is unknown.
Currency Data Type
One-To-One Relationship
Table Window
Null
25. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.
Table Window
Comparison Operator
Many-to-many Relationship
Database Diagram
26. Functional dependency involving only non-key attributes.
Transitive Dependency
Action Query
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Aggregate Function
27. All key attributes defined - attributes depend on key and no repeating groups.
Many-to-many Relationship
SQL
Sort
First Normal Form
28. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.
Relation
Object-Oriented Database
Cardinality
Functional Dependency
29. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Form
Access
Criteria
Primary Key
30. Data from a table - form - query which is displayed in a row-and-column format.
Table Window
Where clause
Data Sheet
First Normal Form
31. An operator used to compare two values or expressions; For example - < (less than) - > (greater than) - = (equal to)
Comparison Operator
Autonumber
Check Box
Fourth Normal Form
32. Stored procedures that may be configured to automatically execute (fire) when certain events take place.
Totals Query
SQL
Trigger
Database
33. 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.
Many-to-many Relationship
Secondary Key
Group
Totals Query
34. 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.
Database Window
Data Model
Data Type
Currency Data Type
35. A window that shows the design or structure of the database objects: tables - queries - forms - reports - macros and data access pages.
Determinant
Design Vie
Make Table Query
Many-to-Many Relationships
36. The DBMS language component used to create - alter and destroy databases and database objects i.e. schemas - tables - views - sequences - catalogs - indexes - and aliases.
Calculated Field
Data Definiton Language
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Append Query
37. No Transitive Dependencies.
One-To-One Relationship
Schema
Third Normal Form
View
38. 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 Constraint
Referential Integrity
Data Definiton Language
Transact
39. 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.
Candidate Key
Composite Key
Secondary Key
Compound Key
40. A type of computer file system that stores all data in a single file.
Data Definiton Language
Flat File
Criteria
Data Integrity Rules
41. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Trigger
Schema
Select
Compound Key
42. 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
Check Box
Hierarchical Database
Relation
Data
43. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.
Append Query
Data Mining
Domain/Key Normal Form
Multi-valued Dependency
44. All determinants are candidate keys.
Self-Join
Data Model
Column
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
45. 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.
Foreign Key
First Normal Form
Many-to-many Relationship
Query
46. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Super key
Recursive Dependency
Second Normal Form
Transaction
47. 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
Query
Column Selector
Super key
Data Warehouse
48. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Currency Data Type
Database Object
Functional Dependency
Self-Join
49. 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.
Third Normal Form
Data Manipulation Language
Secondary Key
Second Normal Form
50. When a relation is not just in Boyce-Codd Normal Form - but also contains at most one multivalued dependency.
Fourth Normal Form
Functional Dependency
Query
Second Normal Form