Database Management Systems

Record locking is a concurrency control mechanism that prevents conflicting simultaneous updates to the same database record. When one user acquires a lock on a record, other users must wait until the lock is released before they can modify that record. This prevents lost updates and ensures data integrity in multi-user database environments.

In relational database terminology, a table is organized as rows (also called tuples or records) and columns (also called attributes or fields). Each row represents a single complete entity or record, while each column represents a specific attribute or field that all records possess. This two-dimensional structure is the foundation of relational databases.

In this technique, it would not be necessary to connect to the remote server next time that the document is requested, because it stores the retrieved document in a local file.

This data store includes web indexing, Google earth and Google finance.

Electronic filing (misspelled as 'filling' in the options) refers to the digital storage and management of documents, allowing for easy organization and retrieval. It replaces traditional paper-based filing systems.

File processing refers to the systematic manipulation of data files, including updating a master file with new transaction data. This ensures that the permanent records (master files) accurately reflect the current state of the business or system.

In early computer science and list-processing terminology, a 'bead' refers to a record or a component of a data structure that can contain fields or pointers to other similar structures. This term is historical and rarely used in modern programming.

A data bank is a large repository of information on a specific subject, often compiled from multiple sources. While the term database is more common in modern technical contexts, data bank specifically emphasizes the collection of data for a particular topic or field. Data acquisition refers to the process of gathering data, not the storage itself.

SQL/XML is a way to publish XML as an ANSI and ISO standard that provides support for using XML in the context of a relational database management system.

It allows an application to store information for the current session.

This data model in DBMS makes use of a set of tables to show data as well as the relationship between the data.

This is the technique used for denormalisation in which the records are summarised in some summary columns. It reduces the number of records stored in a table.

This type of transparency in distributed DBMS permits a transaction to be executed either completely or not at all.

This model is a specialised adaption of the relational model. It is used to represent data in a data warehouse in a way that data can be easily summarised using OLAP queries.

This type of operation on database can be acquired by dividing a table into a number of sub-tables having disjointed columns.