BUS 237 Chapter : Unit 5 - Textbook Notes

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Kamal Masri

Document Summary

Content is property intellectual property: form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a trademark, patent, copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit topography. Data, graphics, sound, images and video that are important to an organization. Indexing or cataloguing the right information, processing and storing it and then getting it to the right person in the right format at the right time. Separate the management of content data from the presentation of content. A database is a self-describing collection of integrated records. Bytes are grouped into columns (fields) student number and student name. Columns are grouped into rows (records) the collection of data for all columns. Database = collection of tables + relationships among the rows in those tables + metadata: metadata: data that describe data. a record representing the status of a business entity y customer account, an inventory item record: transaction record: