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Database Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A database object that prints information formatted and organised according to your specifications.
Report
Determinant
Join
Primary Key
2. When a relation is not just in Boyce-Codd Normal Form - but also contains at most one multivalued dependency.
Database Window
Metadata
Text Box
Fourth Normal Form
3. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.
Column
Table
Record
Report
4. Stored procedures that may be configured to automatically execute (fire) when certain events take place.
Where clause
Transact
Trigger
Schema
5. One (or more fields) in a table that refer to the primary key in another table.
Aggregate Function
Foreign Key
Multi-valued Dependency
Action Query
6. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Transitive Dependency
Compound Key
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Database Management System (DBMS)
7. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Database Management System (DBMS)
Data Mining
Text Box
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
8. 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
Primary Key
Attribute
Column Selector
Data
9. The process of examining and analyzing data with a view to extracting patterns from it. It is usually done on data warehouses
Normalization
Comparison Operator
Data Mining
Secondary Key
10. A characteristic of a field that determines what kind of data it can store and what type of operations can be performed on it.
Check Box
Data Type
Access 2007
Numeric Data Type
11. A characteristic of the items in a database i.e. a field
Transitive Dependency
First Normal Form
Primary Key
Attribute
12. A control that indicates whether an option is selected or not. A tick mark appears in the box when the option is selected.
Alternate Key
Select
Second Normal Form
Check Box
13. 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.
Calculated Field
Metadata
Tuple
Determinant
14. 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).
SQL
Select Query
Second Normal Form
Database
15. A graphical representation of any portion of a database scheme.
Candidate Key
Compound Key
Secondary Key
Database Diagram
16. 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.
Recursive Dependency
Record
Key
Query
17. A window that shows the design or structure of the database objects: tables - queries - forms - reports - macros and data access pages.
Design Vie
Candidate Key
Functional Dependency
First Normal Form
18. Functional dependency involving only non-key attributes.
Transitive Dependency
Data Definiton Language
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Join
19. 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
Column
Foreign Key
Super key
Object-Oriented Database
20. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
SQL
Data Warehouse
Best Normal Form
Determinant
21. 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.
Table
Index
Database Object
Column
22. 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.
Relation
Third Normal Form
Access
Transitive Dependency
23. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
SQL View
Make Table Query
Multi-valued Dependency
Access 2007
24. The persons or things that a database table is about.
Entities
Schema
Data
Check Box
25. A way of looking at a database object - usually looking at the design or at the contents/results
SQL View
Data Warehouse
View
Entities
26. 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.
Numeric Data Type
Relation
Database Window
Object-Oriented Database
27. Arrange the records in a view set in order according to a particular field
Sort
Object-Oriented Database
Data Definiton Language
Data Mining
28. A graphical representation of all entity relationships (Data Model)
Entity Relationship Diagram
Database Object
Many-to-many Relationship
Database Window
29. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
Secondary Key
Second Normal Form
Hierarchical Database
Key
30. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Transaction
Normalization
Column
Self-Join
31. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
One-To-One Relationship
SQL
Select
Currency Data Type
32. 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
Table
Database
Join
Default Value
33. Dependency where determinant determines a list of values.
Fourth Normal Form
Referential Integrity Constraint
Transaction
Multi-valued Dependency
34. A function such as sum - count or average that you use to include summary data in a report.
Aggregate Function
Expression Builder
Data Definiton Language
Comparison Operator
35. All determinants are candidate keys.
Entities
Design Vie
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Self-Join
36. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.
Table
Normalization
Data Definiton Language
Action Query
37. An association between two tables in which several records in one table can relate to 0 - 1 or many records in the other table.
Many-to-many Relationship
Data
Fourth Normal Form
Primary Key
38. Data from a table - form - query which is displayed in a row-and-column format.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Data Sheet
Transaction
Functional Dependency
39. Refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types.
Referential Integrity Constraint
Data Manipulation Language
Cardinality
Null
40. 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.
Composite Key
Multi-valued Dependency
Referential Integrity Constraint
Best Normal Form
41. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Data Integrity Rules
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Null
Data Warehouse
42. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Report
Query
Transact
Currency Data Type
43. Knowingly violates one or more rules of normalization.
Best Normal Form
Make Table Query
Access
Table
44. That structure which contains description of objects created by a user - such as base tables - views and constraints - as a part of a database.
Select Query
Schema
Data Integrity Rules
Referential Integrity Constraint
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.
Transaction
Second Normal Form
Flat File
One-To-One Relationship
46. Specialized engines designed specifically to store objects. Users can interact with objects only through designated methods.
Entity Relationship Diagram
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Expression Builder
Object-Oriented Database
47. Contents of a Database: Tables of user data - Metadata - Indexes - Stored Procedures - _______ - Security Data - Backup/Recovery Data
First Normal Form
Triggers
Fourth Normal Form
Trigger
48. Many-to-many relationships occur when each record in TableA may have 0 - 1 or many linked records in TableB and vice-versa.
Many-to-Many Relationships
Column Selector
Data Definiton Language
Schema
49. A section of a record containing data relating to one single characteristic of an entity; also called an attribute
Field
Determinant
Recursive Dependency
Multi-valued Dependency
50. A query that removes records which match the criteria you specify from one or more tables
Delete Query
Expression Builder
Data Definiton Language
Action Query