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In all information systems, data resources must be organized and structured in some logical manner, so that they can be: D. All of the choices are correct.

From a logical point of view, a(n) _______________ is the smallest data element that can be observed and manipulated. A. character

A record represents a collection of _______________ that describe an entity.
D. attributes

All the fields used to describe the attributes of an entity are grouped to form a(n) _______________. B. record

A group of related records is a data file, or a _______________. C. table

Variable-length records contain: A. both a variable number of fields and variable field lengths.

Fixed-length records contain: D. …show more content…

C. relational According to one database pioneer, the future development of databases and data warehouses will depend on _______________. B. columns

Large organizations usually place control of enterprise-wide database development in the hands of _______________. A. Database administrators (DBAs)

According to the text, most data warehouses will run _______________ in a column format.
B. 50 times faster Database administrators and database design analysts work with end users and systems analysts to do all of the following except:
D. Enter live data into the system until it has proven to be reliable

_______________ are used to model the relationships among the many entities involved in business processes. D. Subschema diagrams

The physical design stage of database development: C. Determines the data storage structures and access methods

The _______________ stage of database development translates the conceptual models into the data model of a DBMS. D. logical design

A _______________ is an overall logical view of the relationships among the data elements in a database. A. schema A _______________ is an overall logical view of the relationships needed to support specific end-user application programs that will access the database.
B. subschema
According to the textbook case, the innovation of the open-source product Hadoop is _______________.
C.

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