Q. The total participation by entities is represented in E-R diagram as

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Q. Which of the following is a low level operator?

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Q. A window into a portion of a database is

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Q. The entity set person is classified as student and employee. This process is called _________

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Q. Which relationship is used to represent a specialization entity ?

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Q. The refinement from an initial entity set into successive levels of entity subgroupings represents a ________ design process in which distinctions are made explicit.

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Q. There are similarities between the instructor entity set and the secretary entity set in the sense that they have several attributes that are conceptually the same across the two entity sets: namely, the identifier, name, and salary attributes. This process is called

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Q. If an entity set is a lower-level entity set in more than one ISA relationship, then the entity set has

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Q. A _____________ constraint requires that an entity belong to no more than one lower-level entity set.

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Q. Consider the employee work-team example, and assume that certain employees participate in more than one work team . A given employee may therefore appear in more than one of the team entity sets that are lower level entity sets of employee. Thus, the generalization is _____________

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Q. The completeness constraint may be one of the following: Total generalization or specialization , Partial generalization or specialization . Which is the default ?

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Q. Functional dependencies are a generalization of

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Q. A domain is ______ if elements of the domain are considered to be indivisible units.

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Q. Identify the composite attributes

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Q. Consider the relation given below and ind the maximum normal form applicable to them
1. R(A, B) WITH productions { A --> B }

2. R(A, B) WITH productions { B --> A }

3. R(A, B) WITH productions {A —> B, B --> A }

4. R(A, B, C) WITH productions {A -->B, B --> A, AB --> C }

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Q. Which one is based on multi-valued dependency:

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Q. If a relation is in BCNF, then it is also in

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Q. If every non-key attribute is functionally depedent primary key, then the relation will be in

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Q. If an attribute of a composite key is dependent on an attribute of the other composite key, a normalization called _____ is needed.

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Q. The term for information that describes what type of data is available in a database is:

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