Fundamentals of Information Systems
Fundamentals of Information Systems
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781337097536
Author: Ralph Stair, George Reynolds
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The description of the members of hierarchy of data.

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The database consists of a complete hierarchy of data members which starts from a bit.

Bit is the smallest member in the data hierarchy. Bits represent the values of a circuit as either on or off. A combination of 8-bits called byte is used to represent any character in a computer system.

Character is the next member of the data hierarchy. Each byte represents a character. Character can have any values ranging from A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9 or any special character. Character forms the basic building block for information.

Field is formed when multiple characters are put together. Fields can have any name, number, address or any combination of character. Some fields are evaluated out of other fields like sum, average and so on.

Record is the next member of the data hierarchy. A collection of related data fields forms a record. So, in a record, there will be description of an individual or object.

File is formed with the collection of the record related to each other. For example, an employee file will contain the record of employees. In the record, there will be the fields like Name, Address, and Employee id and so on.

Database is the last member of the data hierarchy. Database consists of related files.

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