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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. An attribute that is part of a key is known as a ____ attribute.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






22. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






26. 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 ____.






27. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






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






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






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






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






37. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






39. 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 ____.






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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