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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. _______ databases reflect the ever-growing demand for greater scope and depth in the data on which decision support systems increasingly rely.






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






3. 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 ____.






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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 ____.






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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