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Database Management

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1. A control that indicates whether an option is selected or not. A tick mark appears in the box when the option is selected.






2. A relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational MS Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.






3. A relation that contains no multivalued attributes.






4. 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.






5. A primary key that is comprised of more than one field.






6. 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.






7. A value that is automatically entered in a field or control when you add a new record.






8. 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.






9. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money






10. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. No Transitive Dependencies.






14. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.






15. A window that shows the design or structure of the database objects: tables - queries - forms - reports - macros and data access pages.






16. A programming language designed for managing & obtaining data in relational database management systems (RDBMS)






17. 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






18. The DBMS language component used to create - alter and destroy databases and database objects i.e. schemas - tables - views - sequences - catalogs - indexes - and aliases.






19. 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.






20. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.






21. A graphical representation of all entity relationships (Data Model)






22. A self-describing collection of integrated tables. The tables are called integrated because they store data about the relationships between the rows of data.






23. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results






24. The persons or things that a database table is about.






25. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.






26. The DML statement used to choose data from a database. The result is stored in a temporary table - called the result-set.






27. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.






28. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.






29. 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.






30. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.






31. No partial functional-dependencies.






32. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database






33. Table has no anomalies.






34. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.






35. One (or more fields) in a table that refer to the primary key in another table.






36. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.






37. A characteristic of a field that determines what kind of data it can store and what type of operations can be performed on it.






38. The process of examining and analyzing data with a view to extracting patterns from it. It is usually done on data warehouses






39. 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.






40. Data from a table - form - query which is displayed in a row-and-column format.






41. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.






42. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.






43. The dominant database model






44. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.






45. A database object that prints information formatted and organised according to your specifications.






46. 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.






47. Data about data.






48. The process of organizing data to minimize redundancy and produce smaller - well-structured relations/tables.






49. 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.






50. a.k.a record







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