1) Batch Processing: Accumulating transactions and feeding them into a computer in large batches.
2) Browse: The process of finding information in a database or other data source, such as the World Wide Web.
3) Centralized Databases: A database housed in a mainframe computer, accessible only to information-processing personnel.
4) Client/Server: Client programs in desktop computers send information requests through a network to server databases on mainframes, minicomputers, or desktop computers; the servers process queries and send the requested data back to the client.
5) Computed Fields: In a database, a field containing formulas similar to spreadsheet formulas; they display values calculated from values in other numeric fields.
6) Data Mining: The discovery and extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases.
7) Data Scrubbing: The process of going through a database and eliminating records that contain errors.
8) Data Warehouse: An integrated collection of corporate data stored in one location.
9) Database: A collection of information stored in an organized form in a computer.
10) DBMS: A program or system of programs that can manipulate data in a large collection of files (the database), cross-referencing between files as needed.
11) Database program: A software tool for organizing the storage and retrieval of the information in a database.
12) Dirty Data: Data records with spelling mistakes, incorrect or obsolete values, or other errors.
13) Distributed Database: Data strewn out across networks on several different computers.
14) Export Data: Transmitting records and fields from a database program to another program.
15) Field: Each discrete chunk of information in a database record.
16) File Manager: A program that enables users to manipulate files on their computers.
17) GIS: that combines tables of data with demographic information and displays geographic and demographic data on maps.
18) Identity theft: The crime, committed by hackers or other unscrupulous individuals, of obtaining enough information about a person to assume his or her identity, often as a prelude to illegally using the victim's credit cards. Imported Data
19) Interactive Processing: Interacting with data through terminals, viewing and changing values online in real time.
20) Object oreinted Database: Instead of storing records in tables and hierarchies, stores software objects that contain procedures (or instructions) with data.
21) Personal Information manager: A specialized database program that automates an address/phone book, an appointment calendar, a to-do list, and miscellaneous notes. Also called an electronic organizer.
22) Privacy: Freedom from unauthorized access to one's person, or to knowledge about one's person.
23) Query: An information request
24) Query Language: A special language for performing queries, more precise than the English.
25) Real time: When a computer performs tasks immediately.
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