SQL Chapter 2 Quiz

True

An unnormalized relation is a relation that contains repeating groups.

True

Because there is a one-to-many relationship between sales reps and customers n the Premiere Products database, One sales rep can be associated with zero, one, or more customers.

True

Each column in a table of a relational database should have a distinct name.

updates

The four categories of update anomalies are additions, deletions, inconsistent data, and ______.

database design

The process of determining the particular tables and columns that will comprise a database is known as ____.

True

The statement "A sales rep's pay class functionally determines his or her pay rate" means that if you know the pay class, you also know the pay rate.

parentheses

There is a commonly accepted shorthand representation to show the structure of a relational database: After the name of the table, all the columns in the table are listed within a set of ____.

nonkey

A ____ column is a column that is not part of the primary key.

False

A determinant is any column (or collection of columns) that determines another table.

column

A field is another term for a(n) ____.

False

A programmer interviews users, examines existing and proposed documents, and examines organizational policies to determine exactly the type of data needs the database must support

tuple

A record is another term for a(n) ____.

False

A relation is essentially a three-dimensional table.

first normal form

A relation is in ____ if it does not contain any repeating groups.

relations

A relational database is a collection of ________.

Entities

A relationship is an association between _______.

False

A table is in third normal form if it is in second normal form and no nonkey column is dependent on only a portion of the primary key.

REPEATING

A table's design should be as simple as possible; you should restrict each position in a table to a single entry by not allowing multiple entries (called a(n) _____ group) in an individual location in the table.

False

A tabular database is a collection of tables.

All of the above (attribute, field, column)

A(n) ____ is a characteristic or property of an entity.

tuple

A(n) ____ is another name for a record or a row.

relationship

A(n) ____ is the association between entities.

NONKEY

A(n) _____ column is a column that is not part of the primary key.

ENTITY

A(n) ______ is a person, place, object, event, or idea for which you want to store and process data.

RELATIONSHIP

A(n) ________ is the association between entities.

PRIMARY

The _______ key of a table (relation) is the column or collection of columns that uniquely identifies a given row in that table.

dependency

Any column (or collection of columns) that determines another column is called a(n) ____.

one-to-many

At Premiere Products, there is a ____ relationship between sales reps and customers.

False

Columns are sometimes called tuples.

True

The definition for a primary key really defines a candidate key as well

second

If the primary key of a table contains only a single column, the table is automatically in _____ normal form.

True

In a relation, all values in a column are values of the same attribute.

immaterial

In a relation, the order of the rows and columns is ____________________

row, record, tuple

In a relational database each ____ should be unique.

functionally dependent

In a relational database, column B is ______ on another column A, it at any point in time a value for A determines a single value for B.

True

In a relational database, relationships are implemented by having common columns in two or more tables.

False

In a relational database, two columns can be identical

rectangles

In an entity-relationship (E-R) diagram, ____ are used to represent an entity.

lines

In an entity-relationship (E-R) diagram, one-to-many relationships between entities are drawn as ____ .

RELATIONSHIPS

In one style of entity-relationship (E-R) diagrams, diamonds are used to describe _____.

third normal form

In this text, Boyce-Codd normal form is the same as ____.

False

Normalization is done before creating the database design

qualify

When you write a column in the format CUSTOMER.REP_NUM, you say that you _____ the column name

Order_num and Part_num

Which of the following is the primary key of the ORDER_LINE (ORDER_NUM, PART_NUM, NUM_ORDERED, QUOTED_PRICE) table?

(.)

Which of the following symbols is used to qualify column names?

update anomalies

____ can occur when there is a column in a table that is dependent on only a portion of the primary key.

inconsistent data

____ is one of the categories of update anomalies.

redundancy

____ is the duplication of data.

concatenation

____ is the formal term for combining two or more columns to form a primary key.

BOYCE-CODD NORMAL FORM (BCNF)

________ is another name given to third normal form in this text.