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Data Modeling

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1. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






2. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






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






19. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






41. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 1NF - 2NF - and 3NF are _____.






50. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .







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