If you can't answer these questions from your notes, ask about them in class or during office hours before the final!
1. What is a database? What is a DBMS?
2. What are the physical, logical and view layers of a DBMS?
3. What is a relational database? What is a relation?
4. What is a transaction?
5. What are some of the reasons to choose a database over a spreadsheet?
6. What is a record?
7. What is a field?
8. What is a key field?
9. What is a view?
10. What are the roles of the systems programmer, the application programmer, and the user in developing and working with a DBMS?
11. What is SQL? What is QBE?
12. Why are databases sometimes worthless for casual users?