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What is the first step a computer user must do when creating a database?
Determine purpose of database
100
What statement is TRUE about creating databases?
Entries may be made in any order and sorted
100
How would you find the phone number of one particular student from 500 names and addresses of students enrolled at your school?
Perform a search using the student's name as the criteria
100
What is another term for the categories when creating a database?
Field
100
What are the four parts of a database listed in ascending order?
entry, field, file, record
200
What is one piece or item of information in a database?
What is entry
200
How would you put a class of students in order from the shortest to the tallest?
Sort by height in ascending order
200
What is at most
Less than or equal to
200
What is the mathematical operator for less than
<
200
In a database of elementary school students, what would be the process of ranking them in order of oldest to youngest.
Sort the age field in descending order
300
What method would you use to find a specific entry in a record?
Search/filter
300
What would you do first to generate a hard copy of the database of North Carolina?
Retrieve the file
300
In a database containing information about North Carolina and its counties, how would you find the county with the most people?
Sort the records in descending order by population
300
What is retrieving information in a database using specific criteria known as ?
What is Querying
300
If you had a database of names and phone numbers, what would LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, and PHONE NUMBER be examples of?
Fields
400
To find out which employee earns the most per hour, you would,
Sort in descending order
400
What does descending order mean?
z to a alphabetical order
400
What is more than when using comparison words during a filter exercise?
What is greater
400
What is the sort order, if books are organized from the most expensive to the cheapest?
Descending
400
What is a group of related fields known as
Records
500
When using a double search/filter on the same field use the connector word
Or
500
How would you find the students in your math class that made a final grade average of at least a 93?
What is perform search of all records that have greater than 93 in the grade field
500
When comparing text/words use either _____ or _____ as the comparison word.
What is (is equal) or contains
500
What is one advantage of database
Can be easily organized
500
What is the comparison word for at least?
What is greater than or equal to
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