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| pieces of information describing a particular entity |
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| Applications and technologies to help users make better business decisions |
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| A Special organizational function for managing the organization's data resources, concerned with information policy, data planning, maintainence of data dictionaries, and data quality standards. |
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| Activities for detecting and correcting data in a database or file that are incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or redundant. Also known as data scrubbing. |
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| DBMS capability that specifies the structure and content of the database. |
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| An automated or manual tool for storing and organizing information about the data maintained in a database |
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| Data Manipulation Language |
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| A language associated with a database management system that end users and programmers use to manipulate data in the database |
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| A small data warehouse containing only a portion of the organization's data for a specified function or population of users. |
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| Analysis of large pools of data to find patterns and rules that can be used to guide decision making and predict future behavior |
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| A database, with reporting and query tools, that stores current and historical data extracted from various operational systems and consolidated for management reporting and analysis |
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| Refers to the more technical and operational aspects of managing data, including physical database design and maintenance. |
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| Database Management System |
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| Special software to create and maintain a database and enable individual business applications to extract the data they need without having to create separate files or data definitions in their computer programs |
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| A computer in a client/server environment that is responsible for running a DBMS to process SQL statements and perform database management tasks |
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| A person, place, thing, or event about which information must be kept. |
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| Entity-Relationship Diagram |
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| A methodology for documenting databases illustrating the relationship between various entities in the database. |
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| A grouping of characters into a word, a grouping of words, or a complete number, such as a person's name or age |
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| Field in a database table that enables users to find related information in another database table |
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| Formal rules governing the maintenance, distribution, and use of information in an organization |
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| A field in a record that uniquely identifies instances of that record so that it can be retrieved, updated, or sorted |
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| The process of creating small stable data structures from complex groups of data when designing a relational database |
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| stores the data and procedures that act on those data as objects that can be automatically retrieved and shared. |
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| A database management system that combines the capabilities of a relational DBMS for storing traditional information and the capabilities of an object-oriented DBMS for storing graphics and multimedia. |
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| Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) |
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| Capability for manipulating and analyzing large volumes of data from multiple perspectives. |
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| Use of data-mining techniques, historical data, and assumptions about future conditions to predict outcomes of events |
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| Unique identifier for all the information in any row of a database table |
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| A group of related fields |
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| Rules to ensure that relationships between coupled database tables remain consistent |
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| A type of logical database model that treats data as if they were stored in two-dimensional tables. It can relate data stored in one table to data stored in another as long as the two tables share a common data element |
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| Structured Query Language (SQL) |
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| The standard data manipulation language for relational database management systems |
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| Row or records in a relational Table |
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