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Data Modeling

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






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






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






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






5. 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 ____.






6. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






8. Improving ___ leads to more flexible queries.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. A ______ attribute can have only one value.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






36. ____ yields better performance.






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. A ___________ must not contain a repeating group .






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






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






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






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







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