BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Database, Management Information System, Database Application

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Zorana Svedic

Document Summary

A form of creative endeavor that can be protected through a trademark, patent, copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit topography. An information system that tracks organizational documents, webpages, graphics, and related materials. A database table has multiple columns that are used to represent the attributes of an entity. Also called records, groups of columns in a database table. Also called a file, a group of similar rows or records in a database. A column or group of columns that identifies a unique row in a table. A column or group of columns used to represent relationships. Values of the foreign key match values of the primary key in a different (foreign) table. Databases that carry their data in the form of tables and that represent relationships using foreign keys. The more formal name for a database table. Applications, having the standard five components, that make database data more accessible and useful.