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can later form with another lower level entity to form a higher
level entity.
23.
Hierarchical database = this type of DBMS has a tree
like structure, where the data is stored in records which are
connected by links.
24.
Information = information is data that has been
processed and translated into a language which is
understandable by humans.
25.
Instances = It is a single occurrence of something. In
terms of databases, an entity instance, is a single occurrence
of that entity
26.
Internal Schema = represents a specific representation
of the internal database model
27.
Key Attribute = it is an unique attribute which allows the
user to identify the entity
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Logical independence
29.
Meta data = Meta data is data about other data
30.
Multi valued attributes = an attribute which has many
values
31.
Normalisation = It is a method of reorganizing the data
to satisfy two conditions; 1. Eliminating data redundancy, 2.
Ensuring all data dependency is logical.
32.
Primary Key = The candidate key which has been used
to identify the entity type
33.
Record = a record contains a set of related fields
34.
Recursive Relationship
35.
Referential integrity = this means that any foreign key
value must not conflict with the PK value
36.
Relation= a relation represents data from the relational
model in a 2-d table
37.
Schemata
38.
Simple Attribute = an attribute that is atomic
39.
Single valued Attribute = an attribute which only has
one value either single or composite.
40.
Specialisation = this is the opposite of generalisation,
which is a higher level entity can be broken down into lower
level entities.
41.
Subtype = Sub type entities have a parent to child
relationship to super types. The attributes of super type is
common in its respective sub type. The PK is the same
between subtypes and super types.
42.
Subtype discrimination
43.
Super type = Super type entities have a parent to child
relationship to subtypes. The attributes of super type is
common in its respective sub type. The PK is the same
between subtypes and super types.
44.
Tuples= tuples are the rows of the relation table
45.
Weak entity = Weak entities are entities which relies on
the existence of another entity. The primary key of the weak