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Data Modeling

Subject : it-skills
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1. Depicts all dependencies found within a given table structure is known as a ______.






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. Data redundancy produces ____.






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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 ____.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






25. Another word for existence-independent is ____.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. An ERM is not dependent on the ____________.






42. 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.






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






44. ________ cannot be further subdivided.






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






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






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






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






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






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