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    Chapter 4

    Database Management.
    1. Database management approcach
    The use of integrated collections of data records and files for data storage and processing
    2. Date integration
    Date in independent files made it difficult to provide answers to ad hoc requests and required
    special computer programs to be written to perform this task
    3. Database administrator
    A specialist in charge of the databases of an organization
    4. Structured Query Language (SQL)
    A nonprocedural computer language used to interrogate a database
    5. Data dictionary
    Defines and catalogs the data elements and data relationships in an organization's database
    6. Database interrogation
    A feature of database systems that uses queries or report generators to extract information
    7. Database management system (DMBS)
    The main software package that supports a database management approach
    8. Distributed database
    Databases that are dispersed over the Internet and corporate intranets and extranets

    9. Objected oriented model


    Databases that organize and store data as objects
    10. Hypermedia database
    Databases of hyperlinked multimedia documents on the Web
    11. Data resource management
    The management of all the data resources of an organization
    12. Data mining
    Processing data in a data warehouse to discover key business factors and trends
    13. Data modeling
    Developing conceptual views of the relationships among data in a database
    14. Field
    A customer's name
    15. Record
    A customer's name, address, and account balance
    16. File
    The names, address, and account balance
    17. Database
    18. An integrated collection of all of the data about your customers
    19. File processing
    Business application programs that use specialized data files
    20. Hierarchical structure
    A treelike structure of records in a database
    21. Relational model
    A tabular structure of records in a database
    22. Multidimensional model
    Records organized as cubes within cubes in a database
    23. Operational database
    Databases that support the major business programs of an organization
    24. Data warehouse database
    A centralized and integrated database of current and historical data about an organization
    25. External database
    Databases available on the internet or provided by commercial information systems
    26. Data dependence
    A problem in the file processing approach where major components of a system are dependent
    on each other to a large degree
    27. Database structures
    Different approaches to the logical organization of individual data elements stored in a database
    28. Character
    The most basic logical data element corresponding to a single letter or number
    29. Replication
    A feature of distributed databases that identifies changes in one database and then makes
    appropriate changes in the others
    30. Data integrity
    A characteristic of data that refers to their accuracy and completeness
    31. Metadata
    Data that describe the structure and characteristics of databases
    32. Attribute
    A characteristic or quality of some entity used to describe that entity
    33. Types of databases
    Includes, among others, operational, distributed, and hypermedia databases
    34. Data redundancy
    The existence of duplicate data among different files in an organization
    35. Duplication
    An approach to distributed databases that copies the complete content of a master database to
    others at a prescribed time of the day
    36. Entity
    An object, person, place, event, and so on that is of interest to an organization and thus
    included in a database
    37. Network structure
    An approach to database structure that improves on the hierarchical model by allowing many-
    to-many relationships
    38. Logical data elements
    Different levels of data groupings that exist in a database

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