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Database Management
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1. A location within a database table that stores one particular type of data i.e. a field
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Totals Query
Criteria
Column
2. A window that shows the design or structure of the database objects: tables - queries - forms - reports - macros and data access pages.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Determinant
Design Vie
Many-to-many Relationship
3. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.
E-R diagram
Form
Record
Transact
4. 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.
Schema
Totals Query
Design Vie
Compound Key
5. DOC MADE UP
Default Value
Check Box
Recursive Dependency
E-R diagram
6. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.
Trigger
Sort
SQL
Many-to-many Relationship
7. All determinants are candidate keys.
Index
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Third Normal Form
Data Warehouse
8. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.
Functional Dependency
One-To-Many Relationship
Cardinality
Primary Key
9. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.
Append Query
Alternate Key
Expression Builder
Database
10. Table has no anomalies.
Domain/Key Normal Form
Best Normal Form
E-R diagram
Numeric Data Type
11. Knowing the value of one attribute you can determine the value of another attribute.
Transaction
SQL View
Functional Dependency
Second Normal Form
12. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.
Null
Data Warehouse
Access 2007
Select Query
13. 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.
Table
One-To-Many Relationship
Functional Dependency
Autonumber
14. A link between two or more tables.
Select
Join
Relation
Second Normal Form
15. The DML statement used to choose data from a database. The result is stored in a temporary table - called the result-set.
Transitive Dependency
Record
Make Table Query
Select
16. This is an exact numeric data type that holds from 10^38 - 1 through 10^38 - 1.
Secondary Key
Form
Numeric Data Type
Primary Key
17. A Key composed of more than one attribute.
Secondary Key
Compound Key
Check Box
Append Query
18. A referential integrity constraint is a statement that limits the values of the foreign key to those already existing as primary key values in the corresponding table.
Many-to-Many Relationships
Referential Integrity Constraint
Secondary Key
Column
19. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Append Query
Data Warehouse
Fourth Normal Form
Tuple
20. Data about data.
Relation
Second Normal Form
Multi-valued Dependency
Metadata
21. The process of organizing data to minimize redundancy and produce smaller - well-structured relations/tables.
Access
Attribute
Entities
Normalization
22. 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.
Report
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Third Normal Form
Database Window
23. All key attributes defined - attributes depend on key and no repeating groups.
First Normal Form
Many-to-many Relationship
Data Integrity Rules
Metadata
24. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
One-To-One Relationship
Many-to-many Relationship
Data Sheet
Key
25. A primary key that is comprised of more than one field.
Referential Integrity
Composite Key
Data Manipulation Language
Normalization
26. 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.
One-To-One Relationship
SQL
Column
Entities
27. 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.
Calculated Field
Referential Integrity
Data Warehouse
SQL
28. A type of computer file system that stores all data in a single file.
Design Vie
Flat File
Referential Integrity
Data Sheet
29. The actual pieces of facts that are stored in the fields in a database table.
Data
Candidate Key
Tuple
Compound Key
30. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database
Referential Integrity
First Normal Form
Data Model
Data Manipulation Language
31. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Column Selector
Transitive Dependency
Best Normal Form
Self-Join
32. 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.
Database Window
Transact
Cardinality
Index
33. 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.
Select Query
Database
Text Box
Secondary Key
34. A relation that contains no multivalued attributes.
Foreign Key
First Normal Form
One-To-Many Relationship
Table
35. A characteristic of the items in a database i.e. a field
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Comparison Operator
Database
Attribute
36. Many-to-many relationships occur when each record in TableA may have 0 - 1 or many linked records in TableB and vice-versa.
One-To-One Relationship
Many-to-Many Relationships
Autonumber
Tuple
37. Knowingly violates one or more rules of normalization.
Entity Relationship Diagram
Data Manipulation Language
Recursive Dependency
Best Normal Form
38. A normalization which falls between 3NF and 4NF and involves the elimination of non-trivial dependencies
Candidate Key
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Data Manipulation Language
Append Query
39. a.k.a record
Select
Tuple
Form
Object-Oriented Database
40. 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).
Many-to-Many Relationships
Transitive Dependency
Select Query
Object-Oriented Database
41. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
SQL View
Third Normal Form
Tuple
Database Management System (DBMS)
42. A record as seen in the data sheet view.
Row
Join
Currency Data Type
Flat File
43. A section of a record containing data relating to one single characteristic of an entity; also called an attribute
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Field
Access
Recursive Dependency
44. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
Text Box
Relational Database Model
Entities
Determinant
45. Specialized engines designed specifically to store objects. Users can interact with objects only through designated methods.
Alternate Key
Recursive Dependency
Object-Oriented Database
Query
46. A programming language designed for managing & obtaining data in relational database management systems (RDBMS)
Expression Builder
Third Normal Form
SQL
Field
47. 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.
Data Type
One-To-Many Relationship
Third Normal Form
Data Definiton Language
48. A value that is automatically entered in a field or control when you add a new record.
Access 2007
View
Default Value
Attribute
49. The process of examining and analyzing data with a view to extracting patterns from it. It is usually done on data warehouses
SQL
Check Box
Data Mining
Null
50. A query that removes records which match the criteria you specify from one or more tables
Delete Query
Design Vie
Self-Join
Database Management System (DBMS)