| A | B |
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| Data | Raw material, from which you can draw conclusions |
| Information | Knowledge, intelligence, a particular piece of data with a special meaning or function |
| Datatype | to the format and definition of the data in each column |
| Primary key (PK) | is the unique identifier for each row of data |
| Foreign key (FK) | links data from one table to another by referring to a column in that other table |
| Nulls | indicate if the columns must have a value (mandatory) |
| Unique | indicates if the value in the column is unique within the table |
| Table instance chart | A relational database design used to map the information in the entity relationship model |
| Hardware | workstation (desktop) computer, mainframe, monitor, keyboard |
| Operating systems | Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X |
| Applications | games, MSOffice, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshop |
| 3-tier system | clients communicate with a third computer in the middle, which forwards the requests to the servers |
| Finance | refers to businesses that deal primarily with money |
| Logistics | can be defined as the planning, execution, and control of the movement and placement of people and/or goods, and of the supporting activities related to such movement and placement within a system organized to achieve specific objectives |
| Commerce | involves transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) |
| Procurement | refers to all of the processes involved in requesting, ordering, auditing, and paying for goods and services |
| Distribution | the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer |
| Database | A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval |
| Graphic User Interface (GUI) | An interface for issuing commands to a computer utilizing a pointing device, such as a mouse, that manipulates and activates graphical images on a monitor |
