• Differentiates between general purpose and specialized databases
• Identifies uses of special purpose databases in business
• Introduces goals for effective database design
• Explains how temporal databases are used in business
• Explains how Structured Query Language (SQL) is used with temporal databases
• Demonstrates how a temporal database is used in business
• Explains how spatial databases are used in business
• Explains how SQL is used with spatial databases
• Explains the importance of indexing with spatial databases
• Demonstrates how a spatial database is used in business
• Demonstrates how an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) database is used
• Explains how multimedia databases are used in business
• Explains how NoSQL databases are being used to store unstructured business data
• Explains how mobile databases are used in business
• Contrasts Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) databases
• Describes data warehouses and data mining
• Explains knowledge management
• Explains the process of information retrieval