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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. The conflicts between design efficiency - ____________ - and processing speed are often resolved through compromised that include denormalization.






2. Any attribute whose value determines other values within a row is called ____.






3. The existence of a(n) ___ relationship indicated that the minimum cardinality is at least 1 for the mandatory entity.






4. A ___ derives its name from the fact that a group of multiple entries of the same type can exist for any single key attribute occurrence.






5. From a structural point of view - ______ is better than 1NF






6. According to naming conventions described in Chapter 2 - ___ would be the best name for a column representing the charges per hour in a table named JOB.






7. A ___ identifier is composed of more than one attribute.






8. An attribute that is part of a key is known as a ____ attribute.






9. In a ___ diagram - the arrows above the attribute indicate all desirable dependencies.






10. Complex ____ requirements may dictate data transformations - and they may expand the number of entities and attributes withing the design.






11. Need not be stored physically in the data base.






12. A table where all attributes are dependent on the primary key are independent of each other - and no row contains two or more multivalued facts about an entity - is said to be in ____.






13. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






14. A table that is in 2NF and contains no transitive dependencies is said to be in ___.






15. The associative entity is also known as a ___ entity.






16. ____ yields better performance.






17. The set of possible values for an attribute is a ____.






18. If a table has multiple candidate keys and one of those candidate keys is a composite key - the table can have ___ based on this composite candidate key - even when the primary key chosen is a single attribute.






19. __________ is a process to help reduce the likelihood of data anomalies.






20. If database tables are treated as though they were files in a file system - the ___ never has a chance to demonstrate its superior data-handling capabilities.






21. A ___ relationship exists when an association is maintained within a single entity.






22. A ___ attribute is one that cannot be subdivided.






23. A ____ exists when there are functional dependencies such that Y is functionally dependent on X and Z is functionally dependent on Y - and X is the primary key.






24. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






25. From a system functionality point of view - ___ attribute values can be calculated when they are needed to write reports or invoices.






26. The word "entity" in the ER model corresponds to a _______.






27. Dependencies based on only a part of a composite primary key are called ___ dependencies.






28. If an employee within an EMPLOYEE entity has a relationship with itself - that relationship is known as a ____ relationship.






29. Dependencies can be identified with the help of a dependency _____.






30. View the data as part of a table or collection of tables in which all key values must be identified.






31. Normalization represents a micro view of the ___ within the ERD.






32. When a nonkey attribute is the determinate of a key attribute the table is in 3NF but not ____.






33. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






34. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






35. A _____ entity is composed of the primary keys of each of the entities to be connected.






36. A table is in BCNF if every determinant in the table is a ____________.






37. The following step occurs first in the process of building an ERD: create a __________ of the organization's description of operations.






38. The ___ refers to a specific table row as an entity instance.






39. If you have three different transitive dependencies - ___ different determinants exist.






40. A table where every determinant is a candidate key is said to be in ____.






41. In the ERD - Cardinality is indicated using the ___ notation.






42. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






43. Data redundancies occur from ____ of data on every row entry.






44. An example of denormalization is using a ___ denormalized table to hold report data. This is required when creating a tabular report in which the columns represent data that is stored in the table as rows.






45. The price paid for increased performance through denormalization is a larger amount of ____.






46. BCNF can be violated only if the table contains more than one ___ key.






47. A ___ relationship exists when two entities are associated.






48. For most business transactional databases - we should normalize relations into ____.






49. In order to meet performance requirements - you may have to denormalize portions of the ________.






50. ______________database tables often lead to various data redundancy disasters in production databases.