FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS

WHAT IS DATABASE MANAGEMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The term attribute refers to a ____ of a table
A
Record
B
Foreign key
C
Primary key
D
Field
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A row, or record, is also known as a tuple. The columns in a table is a field and is also referred to as an attribute.

Detailed explanation-2: -An attribute is a characteristic. In a database management system (DBMS), an attribute refers to a database component, such as a table. It also may refer to a database field. Attributes describe the instances in the row of a database.

Detailed explanation-3: -An attribute refers to the quality of a characteristic. The theory of attributes deals with qualitative types of characteristics that are calculated by using quantitative measurements.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a database management system (DBMS), an attribute is a piece of data that describes an entity. For example, in a customer database, the attributes might be name, address, and phone number. In a product database, the attributes might be name, price, and date of manufacture.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the relational table, which of the following can also be represented by the term “attribute"? In the database, the number of rows inside a table is called the tuples, and the numbers of columns are known as the attributes. Therefore the correct answer is C.

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