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A grouping of characters into a word, a group of words, or a complete number, such as a person's name or age.
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A group of related fields.
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A group of records of the same type.
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A group of related files.
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A piece of information describing a particular entity.
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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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A collection of data organized to service many applications at the same time by storing and managing data so that they appear to be in one location.
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Special software to create and maintain a database and enable individual business applications to extract the dataa they need without having to create separate files or data definitions in their computer programs.
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The component of a database management system that defines each data element as it appears in the database.
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The standard data manipulation laguage for relational database management systems.
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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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A row or record in a relational database.
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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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A small data warehouse containing only a portion of the organization's data for a speciied function or population of users.
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Analysis of large pools of sdata to find patterns and rules that can be used to guide decisionmaking and predict future behavior.
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