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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. ______________database tables often lead to various data redundancy disasters in production databases.






2. A table that has all key attributes defined - has no repeating groups - and all its attributes are dependent on the primary key - is said to be in ____.






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






4. _______ databases reflect the ever-growing demand for greater scope and depth in the data on which decision support systems increasingly rely.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






11. Data redundancy produces ____.






12. A ____ relationship exists when three entities are associated.






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






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






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






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






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






18. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. A ___ entity has a primary key that is partially or totally derived from the parent entity in the relationship.






27. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






31. In a real-world environment - changing granularity requirements might dictate changes in primary key selection - and those changes might ultimately require the use of ____ keys.






32. 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 ____.






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






34. Most designers consider the BCNF as a special case of the ____.






35. 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.






36. ____ yields better performance.






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






38. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






41. THE MOST LIKELY DATA TYPE FOR A SURROGATE KEY IS ____.






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






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






44. Depicts all dependencies found within a given table structure is known as a ______.






45. In order to meet ___ requirements - you may have to denormalize some portion of the database.






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






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






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






49. A talbe is in 4NF if it is 3NF and has no ________.






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