Database Systems

_____ is the result of revealing the meaning of raw facts.

• End-user data

• An encoded sample

• An encrypted bit

• Information

_____ is the body of information and facts about a specific subject.

• Validation

• A format

• Knowledge

• A database

Accurate, relevant, and timely information is the key to ____.

• data management

• good decision making

• knowledge

• understanding

End-user data is _____.

• knowledge about the end users

• raw facts of interest to the end user

• information about a specific subject

• accurate, relevant and timely information

_____ provide a description of the data characteristics and the set of relationships that link the data found within the database.

• Queries

• End-user data

• Metadata

• Schemas

_____ serve as the intermediary between the user and the database.

• DBMSs

• Metadata

• End-user data

• Programming languages

The database structure in a DBMS is stored as a _____.

• single file

• collection of files

• set of key/value pairs

• collection of queries

A(n) _____ might be written by a programmer or it might be created through a DBMS utility program.

• query

• operating system

• database management system

• application

_____ exists when different versions of the same data appear in different places.

• Data inconsistency

• Poor data security

• Structural dependence

• Conceptual dependence

The response of the DBMS to a query is the ___________

• ad hoc query

• ad hoc response

• query result set

• integrated view of the data