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Database Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Action Query
Column
Domain/Key Normal Form
Text Box
2. A field data type that automatically stores a unique number for each record as it is added to a table.
Secondary Key
Tuple
Autonumber
Make Table Query
3. In an access databse - a window in which you work with tables in design view or datasheet view.
Criteria
Aggregate Function
Referential Integrity
Table Window
4. No Transitive Dependencies.
Third Normal Form
One-To-Many Relationship
Transact
Fourth Normal Form
5. A characteristic of a field that determines what kind of data it can store and what type of operations can be performed on it.
Data Type
Best Normal Form
Fourth Normal Form
Action Query
6. Table has no anomalies.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Criteria
Alternate Key
Entities
7. A database object that stores data in records and fields. The data is usually about a particular category of things.
SQL
Where clause
Data Type
Table
8. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Where clause
Table Window
Select
Row
9. A link between two or more tables.
Join
Data Type
Entity Relationship Diagram
Totals Query
10. The dominant database model
E-R diagram
Fourth Normal Form
Alternate Key
Relational Database Model
11. No partial functional-dependencies.
Second Normal Form
Data Sheet
Compound Key
Third Normal Form
12. The DML statement used to choose data from a database. The result is stored in a temporary table - called the result-set.
Data Integrity Rules
Primary Key
Select
Second Normal Form
13. 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.
One-To-Many Relationship
Report
First Normal Form
SQL View
14. Dependency where determinant determines a list of values.
Schema
Database Window
Multi-valued Dependency
One-To-One Relationship
15. Knowing the value of one attribute you can determine the value of another attribute.
Best Normal Form
Compound Key
Access
Functional Dependency
16. 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 of0 - 1 - or many records in the related table.
Data Integrity Rules
Self-Join
Referential Integrity Constraint
One-To-Many Relationship
17. A window that shows the design or structure of the database objects: tables - queries - forms - reports - macros and data access pages.
Super key
Append Query
Referential Integrity Constraint
Design Vie
18. 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.
Data Model
Determinant
Comparison Operator
Form
19. 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.
Column Selector
Metadata
Transitive Dependency
Candidate Key
20. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
Database Object
Best Normal Form
Row
Make Table Query
21. Arrange the records in a view set in order according to a particular field
Metadata
Sort
Super key
Null
22. All key attributes defined - attributes depend on key and no repeating groups.
First Normal Form
Column Selector
Data Model
Data Definiton Language
23. Contents of a Database: Tables of user data - Metadata - Indexes - Stored Procedures - _______ - Security Data - Backup/Recovery Data
Triggers
Database Object
Best Normal Form
Entities
24. All determinants are candidate keys.
Determinant
Make Table Query
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Alternate Key
25. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Database Object
Transact
Data Sheet
Compound Key
26. A type of computer file system that stores all data in a single file.
Relation
Record
Data
Flat File
27. Candidate key selected for use.
Primary Key
Functional Dependency
Form
Criteria
28. 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).
Third Normal Form
Object-Oriented Database
Entity Relationship Diagram
Select Query
29. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.
Form
Schema
Cardinality
Best Normal Form
30. Guidelines set in place to ensure the trustworthiness of data over its entire life cycle.
Text Box
SQL
Compound Key
Data Integrity Rules
31. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
View
Criteria
Referential Integrity Constraint
Transitive Dependency
32. A combination of attributes that can be used to uniquely identify a database record. Candidate keys are a special subset of super keys that do not have any extraneous information in them
Data Mining
Data
E-R diagram
Super key
33. An operator used to compare two values or expressions; For example - < (less than) - > (greater than) - = (equal to)
Flat File
Access
Referential Integrity
Comparison Operator
34. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.
Second Normal Form
E-R diagram
Aggregate Function
Append Query
35. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Database Management System (DBMS)
Criteria
Table
SQL
36. A value that may be assigned to an attribute when no other value applies or when the applicable value is unknown.
Self-Join
Null
Second Normal Form
Attribute
37. a.k.a record
Database
Numeric Data Type
Currency Data Type
Tuple
38. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
Transitive Dependency
Currency Data Type
Many-to-Many Relationships
Sort
39. When a relation is not just in Boyce-Codd Normal Form - but also contains at most one multivalued dependency.
Fourth Normal Form
View
Column Selector
Referential Integrity Constraint
40. A normalization which falls between 3NF and 4NF and involves the elimination of non-trivial dependencies
Transact
Triggers
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Access 2007
41. 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.
Candidate Key
Group
Referential Integrity Constraint
Sort
42. The components of a data abase i.e. tables - queries - forms - reports - pages - macros and modules.
Database Object
Null
Many-to-Many Relationships
Database Diagram
43. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Referential Integrity
Compound Key
Transitive Dependency
Database
44. A function such as sum - count or average that you use to include summary data in a report.
Aggregate Function
Entity Relationship Diagram
Column Selector
Expression Builder
45. 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.
Index
Data Mining
Fourth Normal Form
Record
46. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.
Database Diagram
Many-to-many Relationship
Referential Integrity
Data Model
47. A database object on which you place controls for entering - displaying and editing records in a table.
Tuple
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Form
Alternate Key
48. 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
Candidate Key
E-R diagram
First Normal Form
Data Mining
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.
Trigger
Referential Integrity
Recursive Dependency
Totals Query
50. Functional dependency involving only non-key attributes.
Transitive Dependency
Aggregate Function
Data Mining
Schema