1. Define data:

Data is a DBMS capability that specifies the structure and content of the database.

2. What is a data manipulation language?

A data manipulation language is a language associated with a database management system that end users and programmers use to manipulate data in the database.

3. What is the most common type of database?

Relational database; the relational database is the primary method for organizing and maintaining data today in information systems.

4. How do relational databases organize data?

Relational databases organize data in two-dimensional tables with rows and columns called relations.

5. Describe how an entity and attributes relate to relational databases:

In a relational database generalized categories represent an entity, and each category has characteristics called attributes.

6. Why is a relational DBMS so powerful?

Because relational database products are available as cloud computing services.

7. What does this describe: "Represented as a column in a database table that represents things like a person's first name, last name, and age"

A field is represented as a column in a database table; a field is a group of characteristics formed into a word, a group of words, or a complete number, such as a person's name or age.

8. What is a key field?

In a database, a key field is used to uniquely identify each record for retrieval or manipulation.

9. In a database, what does each column represent?

In a database, each column represents an attribute or a field.

10. What does each row in a database represent?

In a database, each row represents a record.