This is an activity that was provided on the catherine mcauley year ten IST section
Feild: An area of a database record, or graphical user interface form, into which a particular item of data is entered.
Record: An ordered set of fields, usually stored contiguously.
File: Something that is stored in different ways for different purposes eg: videos, music and Documents.
Query: A user's (or agent's) request for information, generally as a formal request to a database or search engine.
SQL is the most common database query language.
Database: One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and query the data. A simple database might be a single file containing many records, each of which contains the same set of fields where each field is a certain fixed width.
Report: Computers . output, especially printed, containing organized information.
DMBS: Data Base Management System: software that mediates access to, additions and deletions of, and changes in data contained in a database, so as to store and access data efficiently and control which data particular programs or individuals are allowed to use.
Data dictionary: A data structure that stores meta-data, i.e. data about data. The term "data dictionary" has several uses.
Most generally it is a set of data descriptions that can be shared by several applications.
Data type: Different types of ways that data can be stored.
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