1617 Computing Level J-Minimum To Know

Term 2
Lessons 10

<A> is the tag for hyperlink. It stands for Anchor.

HREF stands for Hypertext REFerence. It tells the browser what to link to.
When building a website; always make it easy to get back to the main page.
When testing a webpage, we check for broken links.

Lesson 11

A Database is an organized collection of information relating to a certain subject.

DBMS stands for Database Management System.
The DBMS is the software that manages and controls the information stored in an
electronic database.

Lesson 12

Before creating your database; you must define tables, identify fields, determine PK,
specify the data types.
Table is a database object that contains information about a specific unit in the database.
The field in a table stores a specific piece of data per record.

Lesson 13

Primary key is a field whose value is unique and cannot be repeated in a table.
Using fields that point to records in other tables; saves space, avoids errors, and eases to update.

Lesson 14

To create a new database in Microsoft Access; click on Blank desktop database icon.
You can create table, go to the Create tab and click on Table Design.
Required property allows you to specify whether data must be entered in this field or not.
You can save your database file from the File menu.

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Lesson 15

You can switch between the different table views using the View button on the Home tab.

To move to the next field in a table, press the Tab key.

Searching for records can be made much easier by using the Find
button on the
Home tab.
To sort in ascending order, click on the Ascending button on the Home tab.
To sort in descending order, click on the Descending button on the Home tab.

Lesson 16

A Flat-file database is made up of a single table holding all the information.

A Relational database is made up of many tables that are linked together.
A Foreign key is a field that can uniquely identify a record in another table.

Lesson 17

A one-to-many relationship is established if only one of the fields is a primary key or has
a unique index.
A 1-to-1 relationship is established if both of the corresponding fields in the tables are
primary keys.
A many-to-many relationship is established if, a record in Table A can have several
corresponding records in Table B and vice versa.