AIS - Chapter 4

What is a set of interrelated, centrally coordinated files?

What is the interface between the database and the various application programs?

Who is responsible for the database?

What contains both detailed and summarized data for a number of years and is used for analysis rather than transaction processing?

What is using a data warehouse for strategic decision making often referred to as?

One type of business intelligence which uses queries to guide the investigation of hypothesized relationships in data is called?

This technique is the method of using sophisticated statistical analysis, including artificial intelligence techniques such as neural networks, to "discover" unhypothesized relationships in the data.

The location and length of the fields needed

This is how people conceptually organize and understand the data.

This is how and where data are physically arranged and stored in the computer system.

This describes the logical structure of a database.

This is the organization wide view of the entire database, it lists all the data elements and the relationship amongst them.

This consists of the individual user views of portions of the database, each of which is referred to as a subschema.

These are individual user views of portions of the database.

This is a low-level view of the database, it describes how the data are stored and accessed, including record layouts, definitions, addresses, and indexes.