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3. BASICSApplications Comm Systems Grab Bags DatabaseTrends 100 200 300 400 500

4. BASICS 100 A collection of information stored in an organized form in a computer. Q: What is a database?

5. BASICS 200 An information request. Q: What is a query?

6. BASICS 300 Arrange records in alphabetic or numeric order based on values in on or more fields. Q: What is sort?

7. BASICS 400 A specialized database that combines tables of data with demographic information and displays geographic and demographic data on maps. Q: What is GIS?

8. BASICS 500 A specialized database program that automates an address/phone book, and appointment calendar, a to-do list, and miscellaneous notes. Q: What is a PIM?

9. DATABASE OPETATIONS 100 To move data into a program from another program or source. Q: What is a Import Data?

10. DATABASE OPETATIONS 200 The process of finding information in a database or other data source, such as the World Wide Web. Q: What is an Browse?

11. DATABASE OPETATIONS 300 Transmitting records and fields from a database program to another program. Q: What are Export Data?

12. DATABASE OPETATIONS 400 Looking for all records that match a set of criteria. Q: What is the difference between a Select (records)?

13. DATABASE OPETATIONS 500 A grid of rows and columns; on many Web pages tables with hidden grids are used to align graphical images Q: What is Table?

14. Database Management System 100 A program that enables users to work with one file at a time. Q: What is a File Manager?

15. Database Management System 200 A program or system of programs that can manipulate data in a large collection of files (the database), cross-referencing between files as needed. Q: What is a DBMS?

16. Database Management System 300 A field that contains data that uniquely identifies the record. Q: What is Key Field?

17. Database Management System 400 A program that allows files to be related to each other so that changes in one file are reflected in other files automatically. Q: What is relational database?

18. Database Management System 500 Also called Webcasting this technology involves the user subscribing to a service and receiving information periodically Q: What is push technology?

19. GRAB BAG 100 Looking for a specific record. Q: What is a Search?

20. GRAB BAG 200 A grid of rows and columns; on many Web pages tables with hidden grids are used to align graphical images. Q: What is table? Q: What is table ?

21. GRAB BAG 300 Instead of storing records in tables and hierarchies, stores software objects that contain procedures (or instructions) with data. Q: What is object-oriented database? Q: What is object-oriented database ?

22. GRAB BAG 400 The crime, committed by hackers or other unscrupulous individuals, of obtaining enough information about a person to assume his or her identity, often as a prelude to illegally using the victim’s credit cards. Q: What is Identity Theft?

23. GRAB BAG 500 A query language available for many different database management systems. More than a query language, SQL also accesses databases from a wide variety of vendors. Q: What are SQL?

24. Database Trends 100 Data records with spelling mistakes, incorrect or obsolete values, or other errors. Q: What is dirty data?

25. Database Trends 200 A database housed in a mainframe computer, accessible only to information-processing personnel. Q: What is centralized database? Q: What is centralized database ?

26. Database Trends 300 Client programs in desktop computers send information requests through a network to server databases on mainframes, minicomputers or desktop computers; the server fills requests from clients for data and other resources. Q: What is client/server?

27. Database Trends 400 Software used to create and maintain large databases Q: What is a data Warehouse?

28. Database Trends 500 Data strewn out across networks on several different computers. Q: What is a Distributed Database?

29. BIBLIOGRAPHY Beekman, G., 2001, Computer Confluence: exploring tomorrow’s technology, Prentice Hall, New Jersey Foldoc. ‘Free on-line dictionary of computing, 1993, http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/ (5 Nov 2002) http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/ ITGS Syllabus (1997) Shelly, G.B.,Cashman, T. J., Vermaat, M. E.,2003, Discovering computers: concepts for a digital world, Thomson, Boston Webopedia, 2002, http://www.webopedia.com/, JupiterMedia (5 Nov 2002)http://www.webopedia.com/