Laudon Ch 6 HW

Microsoft's DBMS that includes built-in report generation and reporting is called ________.

Access

________ 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

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)

A ________ provides the link from one table to another table's primary key.

foreign key

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" does not 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 a network nearly instantaneously without a central authority?

Blockchain

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(n) ________ is the most popular method to model a database.

entity-relationship (ER) model

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

A ________ is a component in the computer system data hierarchy that consists of multiple records of the same type.

file