Bus 410 Data Management Research Paper

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Data Management Bryan Gordon BUS 410 January 17, 2013 Professor Matt DeYoung Data Management Hierarchy of Data Bits, Characters, Fields, Records, Files, and Databases make up this hierarchy. Bits make up characters which are put into fields. Those fields are then made into records. Once you have records you can put together files and save them to a database. It’s like building a pyramid from the ground up starting with bits at the bottom. Data Entries, Attributes and Keys The same pyramid example holds true here. The entity is “a general class of people, places and things that data is collected, stored, and maintained.” (Stair & Reynolds, 2012) An attribute is something that defines and entity. So a person’s birthday, employee

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