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The document discusses database concepts and terms such as data, information, database management system (DBMS), structured query language (SQL), metadata, and self-describing databases. It also provides questions and answers about these terms. The document instructs the user to write SQL queries in the attached Cape-Codd database to further explore database concepts.

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The document discusses database concepts and terms such as data, information, database management system (DBMS), structured query language (SQL), metadata, and self-describing databases. It also provides questions and answers about these terms. The document instructs the user to write SQL queries in the attached Cape-Codd database to further explore database concepts.

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David Hillhouse WBIT 3200 Assignment 1 In a Word document, answer the following questions from chapter 1: 1.7, 1.

1.16, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25. Type the questions in bold, answers not bold. Download the Access database named Cape-Codd.accdb from http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_kroenke_database_11/ Submit your word doc and your Cape-Codd database. 1.7 Define the terms data and information. Explain how the two terms differ. Data are recorded facts and numbers. Information is knowledge derived from data, presented in a meaningful context and processed by summing, ordering, averaging, grouping, comparing or other similar operations. 1.16 Explain the components in Figure 1-7. Users employ a database application to keep track of things. Database applications are sets of one or more computer programs that serve as intermediaries between users and a DBMS. Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standard language used by database applications to send requests to the DBMS. Database Management System (DBMS) is a computer program used to create, process, and administer the database. Database is a collection of related tables or other structures. 1.18 What is Structured Query Language (SQL) and why is it important? Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standard language used by database applications to send requests to the DBMS. It is important because without it, the DBMS would not be able to communicate with the database application, therefore rendering the database useless. 1.19 What does DBMS stand for? It is an acronym for database management system. 1.20 What are the functions of the DBMS? Designed to create, process and administer the database.

1.22 Define the term database. Database is a collection of related tables or other structures.

1.23 Why is a database considered to be self-describing? A database is self-describing because it contains a description of itself. 1.24 What is meta-data? How does this term pertain to a database? It is data about data. It applies to a database because it has tables of data that describes other user data in the database. 1.25 What advantage is there in storing metadata in tables? One can examine metadata to determine if particular tables, columns, indexes or other structures exist in a database.

2.22 through 2.40 plus 2.46, 2.47, 2.48, and 2.49 by writing and saving SQL queries in the Cape-Codd database. Use the following naming convention for the queries: Query 2-22, Query 2-24, and so on. SEE ATTACHED Cape-Codd Database.

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