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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 record as seen in the data sheet view.
Row
Super key
Data Integrity Rules
Second Normal Form
2. DOC MADE UP
Recursive Dependency
Entity Relationship Diagram
Attribute
Compound Key
3. A database object that prints information formatted and organised according to your specifications.
Report
Trigger
Compound Key
Tuple
4. Functional dependency involving only non-key attributes.
Field
Calculated Field
Multi-valued Dependency
Transitive Dependency
5. A collection of fields that together describe one entity.
Metadata
Data Definiton Language
Record
Fourth Normal Form
6. A value that is automatically entered in a field or control when you add a new record.
Aggregate Function
Join
Data Sheet
Default Value
7. One or more fields whose values uniquely identify each record in a table.
Aggregate Function
Primary Key
Fourth Normal Form
Schema
8. A relation that contains no multivalued attributes.
First Normal Form
Third Normal Form
Cardinality
Primary Key
9. 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.
Flat File
Data Type
Totals Query
Group
10. Candidate key selected for use.
Aggregate Function
Primary Key
Entities
Check Box
11. Knowingly violates one or more rules of normalization.
Best Normal Form
First Normal Form
Compound Key
Fourth Normal Form
12. DBMS (Database Management System) statements used to manage data (tables and other objects) within a database
Data Manipulation Language
Field
Compound Key
Normalization
13. A graphical representation of any portion of a database scheme.
One-To-One Relationship
Primary Key
Database Diagram
Candidate Key
14. The components of a data abase i.e. tables - queries - forms - reports - pages - macros and modules.
Action Query
Database Object
Record
Many-to-Many Relationships
15. The program which is used to organize - access and manage the data in a database - Creates - processes - and administers databases.
Database Object
Transaction
One-To-Many Relationship
Database Management System (DBMS)
16. A data type that is used for fields and calculations involving money
Currency Data Type
Data Model
Third Normal Form
Key
17. An action query that adds the records in a query's result set to the end of an existing table.
Data Model
Third Normal Form
Append Query
Table Window
18. Specialized engines designed specifically to store objects. Users can interact with objects only through designated methods.
Foreign Key
Super key
Object-Oriented Database
Report
19. Relations which allow you to retrieve related records from the same table.
Aggregate Function
Select Query
Currency Data Type
Self-Join
20. Groups of database commands which are to be treated as a single atomic event.
Transaction
Relation
Null
Select
21. 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.
First Normal Form
Query
Tuple
Database Window
22. Dependency where determinant determines a list of values.
Expression Builder
Transact
Multi-valued Dependency
Compound Key
23. A data model in which the data is organized into a tree-like structure. The structure allows representing information using parent/child relationships: each parent can have many children - but each child has only one parent
Database
Null
One-To-One Relationship
Hierarchical Database
24. Guidelines set in place to ensure the trustworthiness of data over its entire life cycle.
Data Integrity Rules
Foreign Key
Best Normal Form
Primary Key
25. A field data type that automatically stores a unique number for each record as it is added to a table.
Flat File
Autonumber
Relation
Relational Database Model
26. The conditional expession that is to be used to select particular data records from a larger set of records.
Criteria
Entity Relationship Diagram
Access 2007
Fourth Normal Form
27. 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.
Group
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Totals Query
Transact
28. The part of an SQL statement that specifies which record to retrieve.
Fourth Normal Form
Database
Group
Where clause
29. A query that copies data or changes data in some way. This includes append - delete - make-table and update queries.
Action Query
Data Model
Append Query
Database Window
30. 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
Hierarchical Database
Column Selector
Data Sheet
Referential Integrity Constraint
31. A type of computer file system that stores all data in a single file.
Delete Query
Flat File
Numeric Data Type
Fourth Normal Form
32. No Transitive Dependencies.
Referential Integrity
View
Third Normal Form
Table
33. A section of a record containing data relating to one single characteristic of an entity; also called an attribute
Column
SQL
Design Vie
Field
34. A database object that stores data in records and fields. The data is usually about a particular category of things.
Record
Entity Relationship Diagram
Table
Third Normal Form
35. Attribute that determines the value of another attribute.
Determinant
First Normal Form
View
Database Management System (DBMS)
36. A central repository for databases across an entire enterprise.
Data Warehouse
Transitive Dependency
Row
Data Sheet
37. 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.
Object-Oriented Database
Data
Referential Integrity
Trigger
38. To modify a database - or the files associated with the database.
Data Mining
Criteria
Many-to-many Relationship
Transact
39. A control that indicates whether an option is selected or not. A tick mark appears in the box when the option is selected.
Check Box
Flat File
Fourth Normal Form
Relational Database Model
40. An operator used to compare two values or expressions; For example - < (less than) - > (greater than) - = (equal to)
Comparison Operator
Expression Builder
Field
Delete Query
41. When a relation is not just in Boyce-Codd Normal Form - but also contains at most one multivalued dependency.
Primary Key
Hierarchical Database
Fourth Normal Form
Second Normal Form
42. In an access databse - a window in which you work with tables in design view or datasheet view.
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Select Query
Table Window
Primary Key
43. An attribute utilized to sort and/or identify data in some manner. Each table should have a primary key which uniquely identifies records.
Compound Key
Key
Field
Select
44. 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
Make Table Query
Data Mining
Primary Key
45. This is an exact numeric data type that holds from 10^38 - 1 through 10^38 - 1.
First Normal Form
Numeric Data Type
Form
Second Normal Form
46. A key that consists of 2 or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurrence.
Calculated Field
Compound Key
Form
Data Mining
47. A field in a table with unique values that although it is not the primary key - it could have been used as such.
Data Type
Foreign Key
Alternate Key
Totals Query
48. A link between two or more tables.
Join
One-To-One Relationship
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Where clause
49. A graphical representation of all entity relationships (Data Model)
One-To-One Relationship
Entities
Entity Relationship Diagram
Data Model
50. A query ( SQL statement ) that creates a new table and then creates records in it by coping records from an existing table.
Where clause
Database Window
Make Table Query
One-To-Many Relationship