Question

Microsoft Access is a frequently used piece of enterprise software that manages these systems. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these systems, whose “relational” type should obey ACID (“acid”) properties and store large amounts of organized information in rows and columns.
ANSWER: databases
[10m] The JOIN, SELECT, and WHERE keywords are used to query relational databases with this language. Programmers argue over whether or not this language’s name should be pronounced as a three-letter initialism.
ANSWER: SQL (“S-Q-L” or “sequel”) [or Structured Query Language]
[10h] This property is the first of the four ACID properties, and states that a database transaction must either completely finish or not occur. More generally, this property describes operations that cannot be interrupted.
ANSWER: atomicity
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Maryland A (DII)Fordham A1010020
Lehigh A (UG)Lehigh B (DII)001010
Lehigh A (UG)Lehigh B (DII)001010
Lehigh A (UG)Rutgers B1001020
Lehigh A (UG)Rutgers B1001020
Lehigh A (UG)Lehigh B (DII)0101020
Lehigh A (UG)Lehigh B (DII)0101020
Lehigh A (UG)Rutgers B10101030
Lehigh A (UG)Rutgers B10101030
Bard A (UG)Maryland B (DII)0000
Columbia BNYU A (UG)10101030
Rowan A (DII)NYU B0000
Penn B (DII)Penn A (DII)10101030
Lehigh B (DII)Princeton A (UG)010010