Chapter 1 Flashcards
Modification Issues
Deletion problems
Update problems
Insertion problems
Two Data Management Problems
Redundancy and Multiple Themes
Where the same piece of info occurs in multiple places on a list.
Redundancy
Where the data for two or more distinct elements are stuck together on the same line of a list.
Multiple Themes
An international standard for creating, processing and querying databases and their tables.
SQL (Structured Query Language)
Data describing the structure of the database date
Metadata
Serves as a intermediary between database applications and the database
DBMS (Database Management System)
Functions of a DBMS
Create Tables
Enforce Rules
Provide Security
Modify Database Data
Ensures that the values of a column in one table are valid based on the values in another table
Referential Integrity Constraints
A set of one or more computer programs that serves as an intermediary b/w the user and the DBMS
Database Applications