Winter 2001 Mr. Richardson
Divide into groups of 4. Using available your books, available reference material, and the Internet find the answers to the following questions. A list of search engines and other useful links is found on the class "LINKS" page. We will go over the results in class.
1. Who was the founder of Oracle?
2. What is a Leaf in regard to databases?
3. What database does Ebay use?
4. What is ODBC? What does it do?
5. What company makes the database "Progress"?
6. What is MySQL? Where can you get a copy?
7. List the URL of one website where you can find an on-line SQL tutorial.
8. What company originally wrote and developed the database Access?
9. Which database has the largest market share for UNIX databases?
10. Which database has the largest market share for Windows NT/Windows 2000 databases? Which database is second?
11. Who is the world's richest person? What company do they own/control?
12. Who is the world's second richest person?
13. What is the current stock price for Informix
14. What are the system requirements for SQLserver
15. Find the title of one book that teaches a beginner how to write queries in SQL.
16. Find a on-line job announcement that list SQL as a necessary skill
17. What is the average salary for a Database Administrator Nationwide?
18. How do you use export an Access 2000 database for use on a system running Access 97
19. What is the current Paradox (database) version?
20. What is RAID? What exactly is RAID level 1? What is RAID level 5?
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