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1		In a database management system, a data field consists of a grouping of characters. Even more specific, you can say that a data field represents a(n) (characteristic or quality) of some entity (an object, person, place, or event).


2		Your text describes several types of databases. The type of database that is used to store detailed data, which is needed to support the entire organization, is referred to in your text as a(n) database.


3		A web site can store information in a hypermedia database which can consists of a home page and other pages of multimedia or mixed media (text, graphics and photographic images, video clips, audio segments, and so on).


4		A data warehouse is an integrated collection of data that has been extracted from operational, historical, and external databases, and cleaned, transformed, and cataloged for retrieval and analysis, to provide business for business decision making.


5		Your text defines a database system as a set of computer programs that controls the creation, maintenance, and utilization of the databases of an organization and its end users.


6		Your text discusses a number of fundamental database structures. The object oriented model is considered to be one of the key technologies of a new generation of multimedia -based applications. A capability known as encapsulation allows this model to better handle more complex types of data (graphics, pictures, voice, and text) than other database structures.