Chapter 6
Microsoft's DBMS that includes built-in report generation and reporting is called ________.
Access
For handling unstructured and semi-structured data in vast quantities, as well as structured data, organizations are using _____________.
Hadoop
________ is the most popular NoSQL DBMS.
Hadoop
What makes a Blockchain system possible and attractive to business firms?
Its encryption and authentication processes make it highly secure for storing many kinds of data.
The SQL ________ statement allows you to combine two different tables.
JOIN
An emerging non-relational database management system is called ________.
NoSQL
SQL stands for ________.
Structured Query Language
Another name for a database field is a(n) ________.
attribute
To describe datasets with volumes so huge that they are beyond the ability of typical DBMS to capture, store, and analyze, the term__________ is used.
big data
A ________ is the smallest component in the computer system data hierarchy.
bit
A ________ is a component in the computer system data hierarchy that represents an ASCII character like a letter, a number, or another symbol.
byte
A ________ is software that enables an organization to centralize data, manage them efficiently, and provide access to the stored data by application programs.
database management system (DBMS)
DBMS have a data________ capability that is used to specify the structure of the content of the database.
definition
A ________ is a component in the computer system data hierarchy that consists of multiple records of the same type.
file
A ________ provides the link from one table to another table's primary key.
foreign key
The term data ________ is used to describe the policies and processes for managing the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data employed in an enterprise.
governance
A(n) ________ is an important resource for an organization to create, illustrating rules on how data is organized and who has access to what data.
information policy
The formal process to remove data problems such as repeating groups is called ________.
normalization
Although "Big Data" doesn't refer to a specific amount of data, it usually does involve ________.
petabytes
Another term for a key field is a ________.
primary key
The field that uniquely identifies a row in a relational database table is called a ________.
primary key
Another term for a database row is a(n) ________.
record
Microsoft SQL Server is a ________ for large mainframes and midrange computers.
relational DBMS
Which of the following is a distributed database technology that enables firms and organizations to create and verify transactions on apeer-to-peer network nearly instantaneously without a central authority?
Blockchain
The sales, manufacturing, and inventory systems at a bicycle manufacturer use different codes to represent bicycle frame sizes. Forexample, in the sales system, a large bike frame is coded with "L", while the inventory system codes a large bike frame with "LG". This situation illustrates ________.
data inconsistency
Data cleansing, also known as _________, consists of activities for detecting and correcting data in a database that are incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or redundant.
data scrubbing
Data cleansing, working to identify and fix incorrect data, is also called ________.
data scrubbing
A(n) ________ is a collection of data organized to serve many applications efficiently.
database
A(n) ________ database makes it possible to store information across millions of machines in hundreds of data centers around the globe, with special time-keeping tools to synchronize the data and ensure the data are always consistent.
distributed
A record describes a(n) ________ which is a person, place, thing, or event on which we store and maintain information. Each characteristic or quality describing a particular ________ is called a(n) ________.
entity; entity; attribute
A ________ is a component in the computer system data hierarchy that includes content such as Student ID 100, Course IS 101, and Grade A.
field
The most popular type of database today for PCs as well as for larger computers and mainframes is ___________ database.
the relational
A(n) ________ is the most popular method to model a database.
entity-relationship (ER) model
