ITM 207 Study Guide - Meridian Regional Airport, Sql, Database Server

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 207
• Professor: Mosey Nicholas J

Document Summary

Attribute, 178- each characteristic or quality describing a particular entity is called an attribute. Bit, 178- represents the smallest unit of data a computer can handle. Byte, 178- a group of bits, represents a single character, which can be a letter, number, or another symbol. Data administration, 195- is responsible for the specific policies and procedures through which data can be managed as an organizational resource. Data cleansing, 196- also known as data scrubbing, consists of activities for detecting and correcting data in a database that are incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or redundant. Data de nition, 184- dbms have a data definition capability to specify the structure of the content of the database. Data dictionary, 185- an automated or manual file that stores definitions of data elements and their characteristics. Data governance, 195- used to describe many of these activities.