Database Systems Chapter 1 True and False

False

Databases were developed as the first application to computers to data processing

True

Development starts from scratch with the traditional file processing approach because new file formats, description and file access logic must be designed for each new program

True

File processing systems have been replaced by database systems in most critical business applications today

True

In practice, database today may contain either data or information

True

Information is processed data

True

Many of the disadvantages of file processing systems can also be limitations of databases

True

Metadata are data that describe properties of other data

False

Organizations that utilize the file processing approach spend only 20 percent of development time on maintenance.

True

Unplanned duplicate data files are the rule rather than the exception in file processing systems

False

With the traditional file processing approach, each application shares data files, thus enabling much data sharing