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