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A(n) ____ database is used by an organization and supports many users across many departments.

A) desktop
B) workgroup
C) enterprise
D) transactional

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Information implies familiarity,awareness,and understanding knowledge as it applies to an environment.

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Corporations use only structured data.

The same data might be simultaneously structured and unstructured depending on the intended processing.

____ relates to the activities that make the database perform more efficiently in terms of storage and access speed.

The response of the DBMS to a query is the ____.

An operational database is sometimes referred to as an enterprise database.

The term _________________________ refers to scattered locations storing the same basic data.

A ____ is a character or group of characters that has a specific meaning.

Describe what metadata are and what value they provide to the database system.

One advantage of a database system over previous data management approaches is that the database system is considerably less complex.

____________________ exists when the same data are stored unnecessarily at different places.

End-user data is ____.

Most decision-support data are based on historical data obtained from ____.

____________________ databases focus primarily on storing data used to generate information required to make tactical or strategic decisions.

____ data exist in the format in which they were collected.

Historically,a manual file system was composed of a system of file folders and filing cabinets.

A ____ database supports data distributed across several different sites.

A(n) ____ might be written by a programmer or it might be created through a DBMS utility program.

Database programming languages receive all application requests and translate them into the complex operations required to fulfill those requests.