Report And Big Data And Analytics And Marcos Flashcards
Report
A report allows a table and results from queries to be presented in a user friendly way. The layer of the report can be customised.
2 Main ways to organise report results
Grouping
Sorting
Grouping
Records can be groped by similar data eg school records , form class
Sorting
Records can be sorted ascending and descending order eg number in order , names,alphabetically
Marco
Marco is a set of compounds or instructions,recorded together, which when clicked or activated provide a shortcut to a task.
Give examples of how marcos could be used in a database
Could be created which allows a user to click a button which then opens and prints a report , with the print setting all saved
Might be used to open a form and automatically takes the user to add a new record
Big data
Is a term used to describe extremely large dat sets that traditional data applications cannot deal with, big data sets are often defined in terms of volume, variety and velocity
Volume
The amount of data
Variety
The number of types of data
Velocity
The speed of data processing
Data analytics
Applies algorithms to raw data in order to spot patterns relationships and trend.