ASYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION

• Encryption method that uses a public key to encrypt data and a

separate private key to decrypt it

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 COMPRESSION
• Reducing the size of a file

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 DATABASE NORMALISATION
• Formatting relational databases to reduce data redundancy

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 DICTIONARY CODING
• Compression method that uses short keys to represent longer
commonly recurring patterns

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 ENCRYPTION
• Altering data so that it can be understood only by its intended
recipient

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 ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODELLING
• Showing the relationships between different objects

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 FIELD
• Property of an item stored in a database

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 FLAT FILE
• Type of database which contains only one table

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 FOREIGN KEY
• Field used in one table to represent the value of a primary key in a
related table

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 HASHING
• Calculating a key from a given value

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 INDEXING
• Linking values to keys so that they can be quickly accessed by
referring to their key

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 LOSSLESS COMPRESSION
• Method of reducing the size of a file without losing any of the original
data

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 LOSSY COMPRESSION
• Method of reducing the size of a file that discards some of the original
data

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 PRIMARY KEY
• Attribute in a table which uniquely identifies each record in that table

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 RELATIONAL DATABASE
• Database in which two or more tables are linked to each other

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 RUN LENGTH ENCODING
• Data compression method that converts sequences of identical
characters into a single value

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 SECONDARY KEY
• Non-unique key in a table that is used to quickly search for records in
that table

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 SQL
• Programming language designed for managing data in relational
database management systems

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 SYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION
• Encryption method that uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt
data

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