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Application generation component
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Includes tools for creating visually appealing and easy-to-use applications
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Association detection
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Reveals the degree to which variables are related and the nature and frequency of these relationships in the information
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Attribute
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Characteristics of properties of an entity class
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Backward integration
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Takes info entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all upstream systems and processes
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Business intelligence
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Information that people use to support decision making efforts
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Business-critical integrity constraint
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Enforces business rules vital to an organization's success and often requires more insight and knowledge than relational integrity constraints
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Cluster analysis
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A technique used to divide an information set into mutually exclusive groups such that members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the dif groups are as far apart as possible
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Cube
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The common term for the representation of multidimensional info
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Data
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Raw facts that describe the characteristcs of an event
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Data administration component
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Provides tools for managaing the overall database environment by providing facilities for backup, recovery, security, and performance
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Database
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Maintains info abt various types of objects, events, people, and places (inventoy, transactions, employees, warehouses)
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Database management system (DBMS)
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Software through which users and application programs interact with a database
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Data definition component
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Helps create and maintain the data dictionary and the structure of the database
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Data dictionary
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A file that stores definitions of info types, identifies the primary and foreign keys, and maintains the relationships among the tables
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Data manipulation component
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Allows users to create, read, update, and delete info in a database
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