The source of the data is sometimes called the system of record.

More Questions from The Database Environment

• Databases that contain historical and summarized information are usually called data warehouses.
• Data quality problems currently cost U.S. businesses some $60 million each year (Hudica, 2003).
• Stored representations of objects and events that have meaning and importance in the user's environment are known as a database.
• The most common source of database failures in an organization is the failure to implement a strong database administration function.
• All enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are heavily dependent on databases to store the data required by the ERP applications.
• Data descriptions are stored in a central location called the depository.
• An enterprise data model is a relational model that shows the high-level entities for the organization and associations among those entities.

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