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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. 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.






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






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






4. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






6. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






8. 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.






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






10. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






13. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






15. 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 ____.






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






17. Relationship strength depends on how the primary key of the related entity is formulated - while the relationship ____ depends on how the business rule is written.






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






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






20. ____ yields better performance.






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






22. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






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






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






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






28. The Crow's foot symbol with two parallel lines indicates ___ cardinality.






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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 ____.






37. The conflicts between design efficiency - ____________ - and processing speed are often resolved through compromised that include denormalization.






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






39. Refers to the level of detail represented by the values stored in a table's row






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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