Computer Science 1032A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Smart Card, Project Management Body Of Knowledge, Project Management Institute

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Diane Goldstein

Document Summary

Computer science chapter 5- database content and management. In the broadest sense, content is property: intellectual property- form of creative endeaour that can be protected through a trademark, parent, copyright, etc. Challenge: processing and storing the right content and then getting the right content to the right person in the right format at the right time. Data management- how to efficiently and effective store and process data bytes: traditionally handles by database management system (dbms) Web content management system (cms)- what an employee will access if they want to place some content on the organization"s website. The purpose of a database is to keep track of things. Key difference between databases and spreadsheets is that spreadsheets have a single theme whereas databases have multiple themes. Database- self-describing collection of integrated records: plus relationships among the rows in tables, plus metadata (special data) that describes the structure of the database.