GLOSSARY
| database administrator |
A person who has such central control over the system |
database-management system |
a collection of interrelated data and a set of programs to access those data. |
datum |
a symbol or a set of symbols which is used to represent something. |
Knowledge |
practical use of information. |
data model |
a collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships, data semantics, and consistency constraints |
schema |
The overall design of the database |