ICT 202 Lecture 54: What is a Database

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Information Communication Technology
• Course: ICT 202
• Professor: Nicholas Proferes

Document Summary

Differentiate among a character, field, record and data file and describe validation techniques. Differentiate between file processing systems and the database approach. Discuss functions common to most database management systems: data dictionary, file retrieval and maintenance, data security, and backup and recovery. A set of information held in a computer -oxford english dictionary. One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and query the data -free online dictionary of. A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval - Collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval, and use of that data. Database software, often called a database management system (dbms) allows users to: Create forms and reports from the data. Numbers, letters, space, punctuation marks, or other symbols. A field is a combination of one or more related characters. A record is a group of related fields.