Relational Database

A process of assuring that a relational database structure can be implemented as a series of twodimensional relations. The database process that removes redundant data and ensures that all attributes are dependent on the primary key.
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The international standard language for defining and accessing a relational database. The standard language used by relational databases to enter and extract the information stored in them.
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In a hierarchical database, data is organized like a family tree or organization chart with branches of parent records and child records.
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An electronic filing system for organizing collections of information. Most databases are organized by files, records, and fields. An integrated aggregation of data usually organized to reflect logical or functional relationships among data elements.
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A law that mandates that government agencies maintain only records that are necessary to conduct their business and destroy those records when they are no longer needed for a legitimate function of government. It provides a formal procedure for individuals to gain access to records the government maintains about them and to request that incorrect records be amended. The Privacy Act also restricts the way the federal government can deal with private information about individual citizens. The federal law that allows individuals to know what information about them is on file and how it is used by all government agencies and their contractors. The 1986 Electronic Communication Act is an extension of the Privacy Act.
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