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Database Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
First Normal Form
Query
Comparison Operator
Numeric Data Type
2. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.
Index
Table
Determinant
Primary Key
3. Data from a table - form - query which is displayed in a row-and-column format.
Flat File
Data Sheet
View
Calculated Field
4. 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.
Secondary Key
One-To-One Relationship
Referential Integrity Constraint
Relational Database Model
5. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Check Box
SQL
Third Normal Form
Transaction
6. Functional dependency involving only non-key attributes.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Delete Query
Foreign Key
Transitive Dependency
7. a.k.a record
Delete Query
Tuple
Attribute
Entity Relationship Diagram
8. 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.
SQL
Hierarchical Database
Table Window
Calculated Field
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.
Composite Key
Data Warehouse
Super key
Candidate Key
10. 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
Comparison Operator
Join
Database Management System (DBMS)
11. The components of a data abase i.e. tables - queries - forms - reports - pages - macros and modules.
Database Object
Data Integrity Rules
One-To-Many Relationship
Join
12. In an access databse - a window in which you work with tables in design view or datasheet view.
Form
Recursive Dependency
Database
Table Window
13. The DBMS language component used to create - alter and destroy databases and database objects i.e. schemas - tables - views - sequences - catalogs - indexes - and aliases.
Transaction
View
Data Definiton Language
Fourth Normal Form
14. The persons or things that a database table is about.
Entities
Tuple
Composite Key
Super key
15. An operator used to compare two values or expressions; For example - < (less than) - > (greater than) - = (equal to)
Database Window
Access
Field
Comparison Operator
16. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Self-Join
Null
Group
Delete Query
17. This is an exact numeric data type that holds from 10^38 - 1 through 10^38 - 1.
Multi-valued Dependency
Numeric Data Type
Make Table Query
Data
18. All determinants are candidate keys.
Entity Relationship Diagram
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Index
Self-Join
19. Specialized engines designed specifically to store objects. Users can interact with objects only through designated methods.
Database
Expression Builder
Object-Oriented Database
Database Management System (DBMS)
20. A database object on which you place controls for entering - displaying and editing records in a table.
Object-Oriented Database
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Form
Action Query
21. A graphical representation of any portion of a database scheme.
Select Query
Database Diagram
Aggregate Function
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
22. DOC MADE UP
Third Normal Form
Recursive Dependency
Index
Alternate Key
23. A query that removes records which match the criteria you specify from one or more tables
Delete Query
Data Model
SQL
Column Selector
24. A control that indicates whether an option is selected or not. A tick mark appears in the box when the option is selected.
Attribute
Triggers
Third Normal Form
Check Box
25. Many-to-many relationships occur when each record in TableA may have 0 - 1 or many linked records in TableB and vice-versa.
Column
Multi-valued Dependency
Data Mining
Many-to-Many Relationships
26. All key attributes defined - attributes depend on key and no repeating groups.
First Normal Form
Entity Relationship Diagram
Null
Primary Key
27. The window that appears when you open an Access database or an Access project. It displays the commands for creating new database objects and opening and manipulating existing objects.
Currency Data Type
Database Window
Column Selector
Referential Integrity Constraint
28. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Database Object
E-R diagram
Compound Key
Tuple
29. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.
Append Query
First Normal Form
Field
One-To-One Relationship
30. Stored procedures that may be configured to automatically execute (fire) when certain events take place.
Table
Trigger
Metadata
Data Sheet
31. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Alternate Key
Relation
Index
32. No Transitive Dependencies.
Third Normal Form
Record
Tuple
One-To-Many Relationship
33. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Data Warehouse
Append Query
Key
Database
34. When a relation is not just in Boyce-Codd Normal Form - but also contains at most one multivalued dependency.
Action Query
Default Value
Key
Fourth Normal Form
35. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
Data Warehouse
Schema
Many-to-many Relationship
Table
36. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Data Manipulation Language
Second Normal Form
Functional Dependency
Where clause
37. 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
Row
Key
Database
Column Selector
38. Data about data.
E-R diagram
Design Vie
Cardinality
Metadata
39. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database
Data Integrity Rules
Database
Null
Data Manipulation Language
40. 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
Many-to-Many Relationships
Recursive Dependency
Hierarchical Database
Flat File
41. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Numeric Data Type
One-To-One Relationship
Criteria
Fourth Normal Form
42. A link between two or more tables.
Third Normal Form
Domain/Key Normal Form
Select
Join
43. When a table is not only in 1NF but each non key field is functionally dependent on the full primary key
Second Normal Form
Fourth Normal Form
Database Window
Form
44. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
Metadata
Super key
Database Management System (DBMS)
Access 2007
45. 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.
View
Currency Data Type
Fourth Normal Form
One-To-One Relationship
46. 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.
One-To-Many Relationship
SQL
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Totals Query
47. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
Relation
Expression Builder
Make Table Query
Data Sheet
48. The actual pieces of facts that are stored in the fields in a database table.
Form
Trigger
Data
Foreign Key
49. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
View
Data Manipulation Language
Text Box
Expression Builder
50. A section of a record containing data relating to one single characteristic of an entity; also called an attribute
E-R diagram
Field
Data
Database