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MIS - Chapter 5
Data Resource Management
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Business
Undergraduate 2
04/06/2011

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Term
Database management approach
Definition
The use of integrated collections of data records and files for data storage and processing.
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Data integration
Definition
Data 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.
Term
Database administrator
(DBA)
Definition
A specialist in charge of the databases of an organization.
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Replication
Definition
This DBMS feature allows users to interrogate a database easily.
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Data dictionary
Definition
Defines and catalogs the data elements and data relationships in an organization's database.
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Database interrogation
Definition
Helps specify and produce reports from a database.
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Database management system
(DBMS)
Definition
The main software package that supports a database management approach.
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Distributed
Definition
Databases are dispersed to the Internet and corporate intranets and extranets.
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Object-oriented model
Definition
Databases that organize and store data as objects.
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Hypermedia
Definition
Databases of hyperlinked multimedia documents on the Web.
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Data resource management
Definition
The management of all the data resources of an organization.
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Data mining
Definition
Processing data in a data warehouse to discover key business factors and trends.
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Data modeling
Definition
Developing conceptual views of the relationships among data in a database.
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Field
Definition
A customer's name.
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Record
Definition
A customer's name, address, and account balance.
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File
Definition
The names, addresses, and account balances of all of your customers.
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Database
Definition
An integrated collection of all of the data about your customers.
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File processing
Definition
Business application programs that use specialized data files.
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Hierarchical structure
Definition
A treelike structure or records in a database.
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Relational model
Definition
A tabular structure or records in a database.
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Multidimensional model
Definition
Records organized as cubes within cubes in a database.
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Operational
Definition
Databases that support the major business processes of an organization.
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Data warehouse
Definition
A centralized and integrated database of current and historical data about an organization.
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External
Definition
Databases available on the Internet or provided by commercial information services.
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