Terms used in Information Management

Data are the principal resources of an organization

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A data field represents an attribute (a characteristic or quality) of some entity (object, person, place, or event).

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A record represents a collection of attributes that describe a real-world entity.

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A foreign key in a file is the field (or fields) whose value identifies a record among others in a data file.

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A Database is an integrated collection of logically related records or files

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Access to a record for reading it is the essential operation on data. There are four types of access.

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Sequential access is performed when records are accessed in the order they are stored.

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Direct access, is whereby a record can be accessed without accessing the records between it or at the beginning of the file.

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sequential organization records are physically stored in a specified order according to a key field in each record.

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a bit is the largest unit of data representation

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