A database has a built-in capability to create, process and administer itself.

More Questions from Introduction to Database

• Applications are programs that interact directly with the database.
• Prior to 1970, all data was stored in separate files, which were mostly stored on reels of magnetic tape.
• A database has data and relationships.
• The purpose of a database is to help people stop using spreadsheets.
• Microsoft Access is an enterprise-class database product.
• A database is called "self-describing" because it contains a description of itself.
• The DBMS ranked as being the "easiest to use" in the text is Oracle Corporation's Oracle.
• In an Enterprise-class database system, business users interact directly with database applications that interact with the DBMS, which directly accesses the database data.
• The relational database model was created by E.F. Codd.
• Database applications are seldom intended for use by a single user.

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