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Database Basics for Beginners

The document defines key database concepts and terms including: data abstraction, database systems handling backup and recovery, relationships between entities, representational and implementation data models, queries, database designers identifying stored data structures, database systems combining database and DBMS software, database administrators administering primary and secondary resources, databases as collections of related data, controlling redundancy improving query performance, data models describing database structures, physical data models showing stored data, data manipulation languages manipulating stored data, internal levels describing physical storage structures, schema diagrams displaying schemas, data as recordable facts with meaning, entities as names for sets of similar things, database management systems permitting database creation and maintenance, and end users requiring database access for querying, updating, and reporting.

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Database Basics for Beginners

The document defines key database concepts and terms including: data abstraction, database systems handling backup and recovery, relationships between entities, representational and implementation data models, queries, database designers identifying stored data structures, database systems combining database and DBMS software, database administrators administering primary and secondary resources, databases as collections of related data, controlling redundancy improving query performance, data models describing database structures, physical data models showing stored data, data manipulation languages manipulating stored data, internal levels describing physical storage structures, schema diagrams displaying schemas, data as recordable facts with meaning, entities as names for sets of similar things, database management systems permitting database creation and maintenance, and end users requiring database access for querying, updating, and reporting.

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Data abstraction is the data type, relationships and constraints that apply to the data.

= False

Database System automatically takes care of backup and recovery.


= True

Describes how entities are related.


= Relationships

It is between high-level and low-level data models.


= Representational or Implementation Data Models

It is a question or an inquiry, sometimes loosely used for all types of interactions with
databases.
= query
They are liable for identifying the data to be stored within the database and for
selecting appropriate structures to represent and store this data.
= Database Designers
We call the database and DBMS software together as a
= Database System
Who is responsible in administering the primary and secondary resource in the database?
= Database Administrator
It is a collection of related data.
= Database

Controlling Redundancy is used to improve the performance of queries.


= True

Data model is a collection of concepts that is used to describe the structure of a database.
= Data Model

Physical data models is a concept that shows how the data is stored on the computer.
= True

Data Manipulation Language is use for manipulating data in a database.

= True

Internal Level describes the physical storage structure of the database.


= True
A displayed schema is called Schema figure.

= False (Schema Diagram)

Facts that can be recorded and that have implicit meaning.


= Data

Attribute is a name for a set of similar things that you can list.  Like objects, events, people.

= False (Entity)

A computerized system that permits users to create and maintain a database.


= Database Management System

People whose jobs require access to the database for querying, updating, and generating
reports.
= End Users

There’s no difference between the description of database and the database itself.


= False

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