data bases

1. Software used to create, enter, edit, and retrieve data in a database.

• Database Management System
• relational database
• Data Protection Act
• data warehouses

2. composite key

• Data in a database which is needlessly duplicated.
• Primary key which consists of more than one field.
• Field by which a database is often searched.
• Ensuring data is correct, consistent, and update to date.

3. data integrity

• Ensuring data is correct, consistent, and update to date.
• Data in a database which is needlessly duplicated.
• Screen used to input data into a database.
• Vast databases containing many gigabytes of data.

4. TSV

• Language for managing databases by typing commands.
• File format for transferring data, which stores fields and records in a plain text file, with fields separated by a tab character. See also CSV.
• File format for transferring data, which stores fields and records in a plain text file, separated by commas. See also TSV (Tab Separated Values).
• Data such as medical records which, if shared, could cause serious negative impacts on the data subject.

5. forms

• Single item of data about a single record in a database.
• Field by which a database is often searched.
• Screen used to input data into a database.
• Software used to create, enter, edit, and retrieve data in a database.

6. data types

• Format of data in a field, such as text, number, or date.
• Data in a database which is needlessly duplicated.
• Searching collections of data for hidden patterns.
• Screen used to input data into a database.

7. redundancy

• Data in a database which is needlessly duplicated.
• Checks to ensure whether data is in the correct format.
• Ensuring data is correct, consistent, and update to date.
• Searching collections of data for hidden patterns.

8. flat file database

• Vast databases containing many gigabytes of data.
• Database which consists of just one table.
• Field by which a database is often searched.
• Screen used to input data into a database.

9. opt-out

• Collection of fields that represent a single entity, such as a person.
• Ordering records based on a field (e.g. alphabetically).
• System in which users must explicitly decide not to participate.
• Method of extracting data from a database that matches specific criteria

10. queries

• Format of data in a field, such as text, number, or date.
• Method of extracting data from a database that matches specific criteria
• Collection of fields that represent a single entity, such as a person.
• Recording database transactions made by users (e.g. all edits, reads) for security purposes.