Friday, March 11, 2011

Chapter 7

Large Databases often contain hundreds of interrelated tables.
Batch processing: users accumulate transactions and input them into the computer in large batches.
Teal Time computing: allows instant access to information
Interactive processing: replaced batch processing for most application
Client/server computing involves two-way communications between applications running on the "client" PC and the "server" OC.
Downsizing and Decentralizing: Using a client/ server approach, users can take advantage
Data Mining: the discovery and extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases.
HTML: language used to construct most Web pages
XML: designed with industrial strength database access in ming
Web database strategies revolve around directories.
Director are the heart of CRM systems
Object-oriented databse: make database construction and usage more flexible and stores software objects that contains procedures along with data
-->easy manipulations of various types of data
--> saves time by reusing objects
Relational: not good with unstructered data
Multimedia Databases: serve as indexes for art, photogrpahs, maps, cideo clips, and other media file
-More than 15,000 specialized marketing databases contain 2,000,000 names
Privacy: notion of access, physical proximity to the person and knowldge about that person
--> people need  a certain amount of provacy to maintain their dignity and freedom
--> information of people can be a great value to society
--not explictly in the constituition
Networks make it possible for personal data to be transmitted almost anywhere instantly
Workplace monitoring technology enables managers to learn more than ever before about the work habits and patterns of workers.

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