Chapter 03: Database Systems, Data Centers, and Business Intelligence

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1. A database, a database management system, and the application programs that use the data make up a database environment.

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2. A database scientist is a skilled and trained IS professional who directs all activities related to an organization’s database, including providing security from intruders.

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3. An attribute is a general class of people, places, or things for which data is collected, stored, and maintained.

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4. A collection of fields about a specific object is a record.

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5. Today, few organizations use the database approach to data management, where multiple information systems share a pool of related data.

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6. The specific value of an attribute is called a data entity.

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7. Due to their size, databases must be stored on mainframe computers or other large, powerful computers.

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8. Climate control is an important component of modern data centers.

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9. Business and technology vendors are working to develop blue data centers that run more efficiently and require less energy for processing and cooling.

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10. Microsoft built a data center taking up 16 football fields of space filled with 220 shipping containers packed with servers.

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11. When organizing a database, key considerations include determining what data to collect, who will have access to it, how they might want to use it, and how to monitor database performance.

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12. A data model is a diagram of data attributes and their relationships.

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13. The relational model describes data using a standard tabular format; all data elements are placed in three-dimensional tables called relations, which are the logical equivalent of files.

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14. Oracle is currently the market leader in general purpose databases, with about three-fourths of the multibillion dollar database market.

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15. In the relational model, each row of a table represents a data entity or row and each column of the table represents an attribute or field.

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16. Selecting involves combining two or more tables.

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17. Projecting involves eliminating columns in a table.

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18. One of the primary advantages of a relational database is that it allows tables to be linked to reduce data redundancy and allow data to be organized more logically.

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19. The relational database model is by far the most widely used..

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20. One of the final steps in installing and using a large database involves “telling” the DBMS the logical and physical structure of the data and the relationships among the data for each user.

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21. The DBMS serves as an interface between an application program