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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 ___ relationship exists when two entities are associated.






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






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






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






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






7. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. Data redundancy produces ____.






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. ____ yields better performance.






30. 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 ____.






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






39. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






44. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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