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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. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
Make Table Query
Functional Dependency
Currency Data Type
Data Definiton Language
2. 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.
Action Query
Alternate Key
Calculated Field
Make Table Query
3. 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.
Join
First Normal Form
One-To-One Relationship
Field
4. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Append Query
Sort
Transact
Select Query
5. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
Access 2007
Form
Second Normal Form
Third Normal Form
6. The persons or things that a database table is about.
Entities
View
Form
Candidate Key
7. An association/link established between common fields in two different tables. A relationship can be one-to-one - many-to-many or more usually one-to-many.
Make Table Query
Data
Primary Key
Relation
8. A characteristic of a field that determines what kind of data it can store and what type of operations can be performed on it.
Third Normal Form
Data Type
Foreign Key
Currency Data Type
9. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.
Third Normal Form
Action Query
Comparison Operator
Select
10. 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.
Criteria
SQL
First Normal Form
Database Window
11. Dependency where determinant determines a list of values.
Best Normal Form
Append Query
Transitive Dependency
Multi-valued Dependency
12. 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.
Primary Key
Access
One-To-One Relationship
Column
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.
Data Type
First Normal Form
Data Definiton Language
Referential Integrity Constraint
14. When a table is not only in 1NF but each non key field is functionally dependent on the full primary key
Relation
Second Normal Form
Group
Data Type
15. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database
Record
Column
Data Manipulation Language
Transitive Dependency
16. Many-to-many relationships occur when each record in TableA may have 0 - 1 or many linked records in TableB and vice-versa.
Transitive Dependency
Data Mining
Many-to-Many Relationships
Delete Query
17. Table has no anomalies.
One-To-Many Relationship
Domain/Key Normal Form
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
18. A window that shows the design or structure of the database objects: tables - queries - forms - reports - macros and data access pages.
Design Vie
Functional Dependency
Attribute
Trigger
19. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
View
Data
Super key
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
20. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Make Table Query
Third Normal Form
Database Diagram
21. 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.
Access 2007
Secondary Key
SQL
Self-Join
22. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Transaction
Criteria
Default Value
Join
23. No Transitive Dependencies.
Primary Key
Third Normal Form
Select Query
E-R diagram
24. 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.
Database
Object-Oriented Database
One-To-Many Relationship
Composite Key
25. Knowing the value of one attribute you can determine the value of another attribute.
Object-Oriented Database
First Normal Form
Functional Dependency
Many-to-many Relationship
26. 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
Domain/Key Normal Form
View
Design Vie
27. The components of a data abase i.e. tables - queries - forms - reports - pages - macros and modules.
Calculated Field
Access 2007
Database Object
Database Management System (DBMS)
28. The dominant database model
Field
Relational Database Model
Default Value
Database Window
29. A control that indicates whether an option is selected or not. A tick mark appears in the box when the option is selected.
Relational Database Model
Check Box
Data Sheet
Group
30. 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
Metadata
Database
Fourth Normal Form
Multi-valued Dependency
31. A relation that contains no multivalued attributes.
Tuple
Text Box
First Normal Form
Triggers
32. In an access databse - a window in which you work with tables in design view or datasheet view.
Table Window
One-To-Many Relationship
Second Normal Form
Text Box
33. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
Best Normal Form
Many-to-Many Relationships
Schema
Tuple
34. DOC MADE UP
Select
Many-to-many Relationship
Recursive Dependency
Secondary Key
35. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
Data Mining
One-To-One Relationship
Primary Key
Determinant
36. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.
Comparison Operator
Fourth Normal Form
Data Sheet
Primary Key
37. A Key composed of more than one attribute.
Compound Key
Database Window
Expression Builder
Totals Query
38. 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.
Transaction
Table Window
Second Normal Form
Index
39. An MS Access tool that simplifies a task. For example - you can quickly create a complex expression with the Expression Builder.
Third Normal Form
Join
Text Box
Expression Builder
40. 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
Form
Object-Oriented Database
Table Window
Column Selector
41. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.
Data Manipulation Language
Alternate Key
Join
Primary Key
42. a.k.a record
Flat File
Tuple
One-To-One Relationship
Table Window
43. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Recursive Dependency
Triggers
SQL
Data Warehouse
44. An operator used to compare two values or expressions; For example - < (less than) - > (greater than) - = (equal to)
Form
Comparison Operator
Best Normal Form
Access
45. 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.
Access
Flat File
One-To-Many Relationship
Group
46. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.
Third Normal Form
Database Object
Append Query
Secondary Key
47. No multiple multi-valued dependencies.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Where clause
Fourth Normal Form
Third Normal Form
48. 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
Referential Integrity Constraint
Append Query
Super key
Sort
49. A graphical representation of any portion of a database scheme.
Database Diagram
Tuple
Field
Entity Relationship Diagram
50. 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).
One-To-One Relationship
Select Query
Design Vie
Text Box