A set of fields whose data values describe one entity
Record
A row in a data base
Tuple
Attributes in a data base
Column
Each individual cell in database
Field
Set of related, centrally data files, with little redundancy
Database
Program that manages and controls the data and interface between the data and the application program that uses the data stored in the DB
Database Management System (DBMS)
DB, DBMS, the application programs that access the database through the DBMS
Database system
this person is responsible for the coordination, controlling, and managing the DB.
Database Administrator
is one or more very large DB containing both the detailed and summarized data for the number of years that is used for analysis rather than transaction processing
DW
analyzing large amounts of data for strategic decision making
Business Intelligence (BI)
using queries to investigate hypothesize relationship among data
Online Analytical Process (OLAP)
sophisticated analysis used to discover relationship