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Database Management
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1. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Relational Database Model
Access 2007
One-To-Many Relationship
2. No partial functional-dependencies.
Tuple
Transact
Expression Builder
Second Normal Form
3. A field data type that automatically stores a unique number for each record as it is added to a table.
Autonumber
Transitive Dependency
Hierarchical Database
First Normal Form
4. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.
Where clause
Data Integrity Rules
Cardinality
Primary Key
5. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Compound Key
Column Selector
Triggers
Data Model
6. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Text Box
Criteria
Sort
E-R diagram
7. A graphical representation of entities and their relationship to each other - typically used in computing in regard to the organization of data within databases or information systems
Data Manipulation Language
Text Box
E-R diagram
Second Normal Form
8. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Autonumber
Self-Join
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
9. 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.
Make Table Query
Index
Second Normal Form
Candidate Key
10. A programming language designed for managing & obtaining data in relational database management systems (RDBMS)
SQL
Record
Best Normal Form
Expression Builder
11. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.
Schema
Relational Database Model
Cardinality
Action Query
12. 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.
Primary Key
Totals Query
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
One-To-Many Relationship
13. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.
Default Value
Group
Aggregate Function
Append Query
14. A window that displays the SQL statement for the current query or is used to create a SQL specific query. When you create a query in design view - Access constructs the SQL equivalent in the SQL view.
SQL View
Totals Query
Where clause
Comparison Operator
15. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Object-Oriented Database
Composite Key
Transaction
First Normal Form
16. 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
Primary Key
Append Query
Comparison Operator
17. No multiple multi-valued dependencies.
Self-Join
Fourth Normal Form
Select
Referential Integrity
18. a.k.a record
Tuple
Data Definiton Language
First Normal Form
SQL
19. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Data Model
Metadata
Transact
Schema
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.
Object-Oriented Database
Data Type
Text Box
Index
21. The persons or things that a database table is about.
SQL View
Entities
Secondary Key
Transact
22. Candidate key selected for use.
Select Query
Domain/Key Normal Form
Primary Key
Data Warehouse
23. A Key composed of more than one attribute.
Compound Key
Data Sheet
Second Normal Form
Referential Integrity
24. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
Transitive Dependency
Foreign Key
Select Query
Currency Data Type
25. The DBMS language component used to create - alter and destroy databases and database objects i.e. schemas - tables - views - sequences - catalogs - indexes - and aliases.
Transitive Dependency
Data Model
Multi-valued Dependency
Data Definiton Language
26. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database
Triggers
Super key
Data Manipulation Language
Data Type
27. 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.
Select
SQL
Database
One-To-One Relationship
28. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Entities
Many-to-many Relationship
Join
29. Table has no anomalies.
Compound Key
Text Box
Secondary Key
Domain/Key Normal Form
30. 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.
Candidate Key
Calculated Field
Action Query
Referential Integrity
31. 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
Tuple
Record
Select Query
32. 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.
Many-to-many Relationship
Append Query
Functional Dependency
Access
33. When a table is not only in 1NF but each non key field is functionally dependent on the full primary key
Second Normal Form
Metadata
Group
Data Mining
34. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.
Primary Key
Determinant
E-R diagram
Domain/Key Normal Form
35. A window that shows the design or structure of the database objects: tables - queries - forms - reports - macros and data access pages.
Relation
Determinant
Join
Design Vie
36. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
Database Window
Column Selector
Sort
Key
37. A self-describing collection of integrated tables. The tables are called integrated because they store data about the relationships between the rows of data.
Aggregate Function
Fourth Normal Form
Delete Query
Database
38. The process of organizing data to minimize redundancy and produce smaller - well-structured relations/tables.
Database Diagram
Normalization
Referential Integrity Constraint
Column
39. 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.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Group
Tuple
SQL View
40. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Super key
Database Management System (DBMS)
Alternate Key
Currency Data Type
41. Guidelines set in place to ensure the trustworthiness of data over its entire life cycle.
SQL
Group
Database Object
Data Integrity Rules
42. A location within a database table that stores one particular type of data i.e. a field
Schema
Alternate Key
Data Definiton Language
Column
43. 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
Database
Design Vie
Database Diagram
Cardinality
44. An MS Access tool that simplifies a task. For example - you can quickly create a complex expression with the Expression Builder.
Schema
Expression Builder
Design Vie
Transaction
45. One (or more fields) in a table that refer to the primary key in another table.
One-To-One Relationship
Make Table Query
Default Value
Foreign Key
46. 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.
Tuple
Trigger
SQL
First Normal Form
47. The components of a data abase i.e. tables - queries - forms - reports - pages - macros and modules.
Database Object
Third Normal Form
Multi-valued Dependency
Candidate Key
48. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
Entity Relationship Diagram
View
Numeric Data Type
Table
49. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Foreign Key
Access 2007
Where clause
Recursive Dependency
50. A graphical representation of any portion of a database scheme.
Flat File
Database Diagram
Multi-valued Dependency
Form