Description Key Terms

Organised collection of related data

Raw facts

Text, number, Boolean, date, currency,

Standalone table of data that can be created on word

document or spreadsheet. It has all the data in one table.

Database with several separate table with linked key fields

Table showing field names, data type, field size, and

validation rules for each file in the database.

It is composed of records and fields that hold data. They

are also called datasheets.

Cell in the table that hold single item of data

This represents one piece of information about an object.

Every column has a name and a data type.

A row is a collection of column values

This search for data that meets certain criteria and retrieves
that data from the database.

It is collection of data about one object in the file such as a

book or one student.

Presentation of data for printed output

Field that uniquely identifies the record.

Primary key from one table that is stored in another in order

to link the tables

Repeated data in the database

DATABASE DESIGN
Key terms

Word Bank

Relational database Table data Primary key Column

Data dictionary Field Database Foreign key Query

Report Record Row Redundancy Data type

Flat file database