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| Organized collections of information stored on a computer |
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Database is made up of these, which contain a collection of related data |
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| A single unit of data, which contains information about one individual or item |
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| Each separate piece of data that is stored in a record |
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a certain kind of information that is the only kind that can be stored |
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The idea that a database is only as good as the data it contains |
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| Database Management System |
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| This manages the storage, organization, processing, and retrieval of data in a database |
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| This allows you to work with data in only one table |
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| With database software, it is easy to ________ data, or arrange data in different ways |
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| In these, files can be linked to each other by a fieldthat is found in each of the files. |
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| A student's name is an example of this, a field that is found in each of the tables |
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| Object-oriented databases |
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| These store information about documents, audio clips, and video clips |
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| A potential problem involved in the use of computers is having access to too much data, a situation known as this |
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A way to find data by looking through all the records in the database |
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| When data is sorted into this format, values such as 1, 2, 3, or A,B,C, get larger or higher |
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| When data is sorted in this format, values such as 1, 2, 3, or A, B, C, get smaller or lower |
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| With database software, it is easy to create these, or ordered lists of selected records and fields in an easy-to-read format |
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| In most databases, users can design this, or a pattern that controls how data will be displayed |
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