Which of the following are integrity controls that a DBMS may support? Limit the use of null values in some fields. Limit the set of permissible values that a field may assume. All of these Assume a default value in a field unless a user enters a value for that field. TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Two basic constructs to link one piece of data with another piece of data: sequential storage and pointers. True False TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A rule of thumb for choosing indexes for a relational database includes which of the following? Do not specify a unique index for the primary key of each table. Be careful indexing attributes that have null values. Indexes are more useful on smaller tables. Indexes are more useful for columns that do not appear frequently in the WHERE clause in queries. TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
In general, larger block sizes are used for online transaction processing applications and smaller block sizes are used for databases with a decision support or data warehousing system. True False TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Some advantages of partitioning include: efficiency, security, and load balancing. False True TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Sequential retrieval on a primary key for sequential file storage has which of the following features? Slow Very fast Moderately fast Impractical TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Distributing the columns of a table into several separate physical records is known as horizontal partitioning. True False TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A bitmap index is an index on columns from two or more tables that come from the same domain of values. False True TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
It is usually not very important to design the physical database to minimize the time required by users to interact with the information systems. False True TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The blocking factor is: attributes grouped together by the same secondary key. attributes grouped together by the same primary key. a group of fields stored in adjacent memory. the number of physical records per page. TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?