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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






5. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






21. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






24. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 ____ 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.






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






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






39. 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 ____.






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.