Compare your answers with your partner's in practical task. Point the exact information about typical standards in setting up of a DBMS.

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Your fiend has missed a class about setting up a DBMS. Tomorrow he is going to pass the missed material to the teacher, but he asks you to help him. Use these notes to tell him what you know about the operation of a DBMS. Fill in the gaps in the passages choosing the words from the box.

1) A field can be made up of a combination of _______ and _______. You look at a _______ _______ in your current data base and indentify _______ _______, including type of movie, title and call number.

2) Each catalogue card with all its entries about a single movie is a _______. Since your catalogue consists of _______ and _______, you have two records for each _______ listed in your data base.

3) Your subject catalogue is one _______; your title catalogue is another. Your DBMS will eliminate _______ _______ and combine two fields.

File; duplicate records; numbers and letters; catalogue card; title and subject cards; movie; eleven fields; record.

Model: Some particular program allows _______ characters in a field, _______ fields

in a record; and _______ records in a file. Each letter, number or space in an

entry as _______ character(s)

13. Imagine, you are a computer lab instructor. How would you explain the main stages of setting up a DBM System? Use the starters to complete your ideas:

1. Before turning to the computer … .

2. Then look at a catalogue card in … .

3. You need two records … .

4. Your subject catalogue is one file … .

5. Your DBMS will eliminate … .

6. let's take for example … .