DATABASE TERMINOLOGY
Across
- 1. Ensuring consistency of data across tables
- 5. A complete row in an Entity
- 7. A transaction is permanent once executed and should remain regardless of external events
- 8. Execution of transactions should lead to the same result as if they were done sequentially
- 10. Data is the same when found in other entities
- 13. Unnecessary reptition of data
- 14. A piece of information about an Entity
- 15. A primary key that is made up of more than one field
- 17. A database that is made up of several linked tables
- 18. Prevents simultaneous access to records to prevent inconsistency after transactions
- 19. Entities contain only atomic values
- 20. Unique Identifier for each record
- 22. Each entity can only be linked to one other entity
- 23. A transaction must maintain the referential integrity between related entities
Down
- 2. Producing the best model for a relational database
- 3. No non-key Dependency
- 4. When a primary key appears in another table, used to link them
- 6. Allows databases to be searched quickly via an index
- 9. A transaction must be processed in its entirety or not
- 11. A single logical operation executed on a database
- 12. One Entity can be linked to many other entities
- 16. No Partial Key Dependency
- 19. A database that consists of a single entity
- 21. Technical name for a table