Q. Which option can be described as a more aggressive approach, involving a NUMA machine consisting of one or two SMP nodes?

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Q. Which type of indexing can be very effective in a data warehouse environment when indexing on fields with a smaller number of distinct values?

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Q. Which database software feature has been enhanced to assist in bulk refreshes and incremental loading of the data warehouse?

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Q. What two features are critical in a data warehouse, and the DBMS vendors have provided parallel processing to improve them?

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Q. Which of the following operations can be parallelized by most current database software in a multi-processor environment?

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Q. What is the responsibility of the query dispatcher software in a database system that uses parallel processing?

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Q. In the context of database processing, what does "interquery parallelization" refer to?

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Q. What is a limitation of interquery parallelization in database systems?

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Q. What is the main advantage of intraquery parallelization in a database system?

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Q. How does intraquery parallelization work in a database system?

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Q. In the context of intraquery parallelization, what is meant by "the consolidation of intermediary results"?

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Q. What is horizontal parallelism in the context of database processing?

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Q. What is a limitation of horizontal parallelism in database processing?

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Q. How does vertical parallelism differ from horizontal parallelism in database processing?

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Q. What is the key advantage of the hybrid method in database processing?

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Q. When selecting a DBMS for a data warehouse, which of the following is NOT a crucial feature to consider?

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Q. What role does a query governor play in a DBMS for a data warehouse?

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Q. In the context of data warehousing, what is meant by "extensibility" in a DBMS?

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Q. What distinguishes the use of software tools in a data warehouse environment from an OLTP application?

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Q. What is the significance of software tools in a data warehouse environment?

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