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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. ____ yields better performance.






16. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






35. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






42. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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