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| characteristic of an entity |
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| large amounts of unstructured data that is difficult or impossible to capture, store, and manipulate using traditional database management systems |
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| business intelligence (BI) |
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| gathering enough of the right information in a timely manner and usable form and analyzing it so that it can have a positive effect on business strategy |
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| A basic building block of most information, consisting of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numeric digits, or special symbols |
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| intelligence One aspect of business intelligence limited to information about competitors and the ways that knowledge affects strategy, tactics, and operations |
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| A method of dealing with a situation in which two or more users or applications need to access the same record at the same time. |
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| The steps an organization takes to protect information sought by “hostile” intelligence gatherers. |
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| shows current data, graphs, and tables to help managers make better real-time decisions |
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| A nontechnical position responsible for defining and implementing consistent principles for a variety of data issues. |
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| data cleansing (data cleaning or data scrubbing) |
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| The process of looking for and fixing inconsistencies to ensure that data is accurate and complete. |
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| data definition language (DDL) |
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| A collection of instructions and commands used to define and describe data and relationships in a specific database |
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| A detailed description of all the data used in the database |
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| The specific value of an attribute. |
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| data manipulation language (DML) |
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| A specific language, provided with a DBMS, which allows users to access and modify the data, to make queries, and to generate reports |
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| A subset of a data warehouse, used by small and mediumsized businesses and departments within large companies to support decision making |
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| An information-analysis tool that involves the automated discovery of patterns and relationships in a data warehouse |
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| A diagram of data entities and their relationships |
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| A large database that collects business information from many sources in the enterprise, covering all aspects of the company’s processes, products, and customers, in support of management decision making |
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| database administrators (DBAs) |
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| A skilled IS professional who directs all activities related to an organization’s database. |
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| database approach to data management |
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| An approach to data management where multiple information systems share a pool of related data |
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| database management system (DBMS) |
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| A group of programs that manipulate the database and provide an interface between the database and the user of the database and other application programs |
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| The allowable values for data attributes |
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| modeling done at the level of the entire enterpris |
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| A general class of people, places, or things for which data is collected, stored, and maintained |
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| entity-relationship (ER) diagrams |
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| ) diagrams Data models that use basic graphical symbols to show the organization of and relationships between data. |
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| Typically a name, number, or combination of characters that describes an aspect of a business object or activity |
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| A collection of related records |
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| Bits, characters, fields, records, files, and databases In-memory database |
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| Manipulating data to combine two or more tables |
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| key performance indicators (KPIs) |
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| The ability to combine two or more tables through common data attributes to form a new table with only the unique data attributes |
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| database management systems that can handle or accommodate data that does not fit into tables required by traditional relational databases |
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| online analytical processing (OLAP) |
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| Software that allows users to explore data from a number of perspectives. |
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| predictive analysis (also called predictive analytics) |
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| A form of data mining that combines historical data with assumptions about future conditions to predict outcomes of events, such as future product sales or the probability that a customer will default on a loan. |
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| A field or set of fields that uniquely identifies the record |
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| Manipulating data to eliminate columns in a table |
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| A collection of data fields all related to one object, activity, or individual |
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| A database model that describes data in which all data elements are placed in two-dimensional tables, called relations, which are the logical equivalent of files |
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| A description of the entire database. |
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| Manipulating data to eliminate rows according to certain criteria |
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| traditional approach to data management |
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| An approach to data management whereby each distinct operational system uses data files dedicated to that system. |
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