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| the process by which great amounts of data are analyzed and investigated to spot significant patterns or trends within the data that would otherwise not be obvious. |
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| used for setting up a business and helping it work better; how you set represent your business as a bunch of tables. |
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| how you represent your business in a bunch of tables |
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| where a category of information in a database is stored. fields are displayed in columns. |
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| the primary key of another database table that is included for purposes of establishing relationships with that other table. |
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| the process of recording data only once in a database to reduce data redundancy. |
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| a collection of related fields in a database. |
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| for each value in the foreign key of one table, there is a corresponding value in the primary key of the related table. |
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| a large scale electronic repository of data that contains and organizes in one place all the data related to an organization. |
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| a system that includes data, people, procedures, hardware, and software and is used to gather and analyze information. |
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| management information system |
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| a system that provides timely and accurate information that enables managers to make critical business decisions. |
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| transaction processing system |
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| a system used to keep track of everyday business activities (such as sales of products). |
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| the process of requesting information from a database. |
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| structured query language |
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| the most popular database query language today. |
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| organizes data in table format by logically grouping similar data into relations (or tables) that contain related data. |
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