Assignments Requirements 1. Look up the definition of functional dependency. Can you find a good example? In relational database theory‚ a functional dependency is a constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation from a database. Cars Suppose one is designing a system to track vehicles and the capacity of their engines. Each vehicle has a unique vehicle identification number (VIN). One would write VIN → Engine Capacity because it would be inappropriate for a vehicle’s engine to have
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Database Concepts‚ 4e (Kroenke) Chapter 1 Getting Started 1) The purpose of a database is to help people keep track of things. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4 2) A possible problem with keeping data in lists is that if you delete a row of data from a list you may also delete some data items that you want to keep. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4 3) An advantage of keeping data in lists is that if you update a data value in one row of data in a list‚ other occurrences
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ACSG 552 – 01. Processor Florence Appel Advanced Database Class- Spring 2009. Assignment #01. Friday‚ January 23‚ 2009 Due in class on Thursday‚ Jan. 22. o Chapter 2 ▪ Review Questions‚ pp. 54-55: 2‚ 5‚ 6‚ 9‚ 18‚ 19 ▪ Problems‚ pp. 55-59: 1‚ 2; 12-15; 19-21; 22; 25abcde Chapter 02: Review Questions: pp. 54-55. #02) What is a business rule‚ and what is its purpose in data modeling? The business rule is a brief‚ precise and ambiguous
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Rachana B Avadhani VIII A Data Base Concepts A database management system (DBMS) is the software that allows a computer to perform database functions of storing‚ retrieving‚ adding‚ deleting and modifying data. Relational database management systems (RDBMS) implement the relational model of tables and relationships. Database Data: is the required particular piece of information which we need. The information in the database is stored in records. Records: The records are information
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Silberschatz−Korth−Sudarshan • Database System Concepts‚ Fourth Edition Front Matter 1 1 11 11 35 35 36 87 140 140 141 194 229 260 307 307 308 337 363 393 393 394 446 494 529 563 563 564 590 637 Preface 1. Introduction Text I. Data Models Introduction 2. Entity−Relationship Model 3. Relational Model II. Relational Databases Introduction 4. SQL 5. Other Relational Languages 6. Integrity and Security 7. Relational−Database Design III. Object−Based Databases and XML Introduction 8. Object−Oriented
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Book Title: Database Systems Concepts Title: Major Project Proposal Student Name: Fouad Khoury Student Number: 174833 Course Title: CS441 Date: 6th of March 2011 Project Name: Workplace Integrated Facility Management Solution (WIFMS) Summary Facilities and physical infrastructure management is a critical business function. Comprising 25 to 50 percent of a company’s fixed assets and operating costs‚ facilities and infrastructure are significant resources that must be efficiently managed
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Apply the database development cycle to a given data set Database development creates enterprise data modeling‚ which forms the range and wide-ranging contents of organizational databases. There are 5 phases in Database Development Cycle: Planning; Analysis; Design; Implementation and Maintenance. Planning In Planning Stage‚ the organization needs to know why do they need the database; what do they want the database to do; and how are they going to make the database. This is also where the
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something a database needs to do in order to fulfill its purpose. 2. FALSE You only need to include the most important stakeholders in the database discussions. 3. TRUE Forms are used for gathering input. 4. TRUE A transaction database is optimized to track transactions in real time. 5. TRUE Data mining uses business intelligence tools and techniques on a variety of data sources brought together in a data warehouses. 6. TRUE The domain is the focus or knowledge area of a database.
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Brief Introduction to Database Concepts Andrea Rodr´ ıguez Summer School - Castell´n 2004 o Department of Computer Science University of Concepci´n‚ Chile o http://www.inf.udec.cl/∼andrea andrea@udec.cl 1 Introduction Information and data are different. Information is understood by a person. Data are values stored on a passive medium like a computer disk. The purpose of a database management system (DBMS) is to bridge the gap between information and data - the data stored in memory or on disk
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The Fundamentals of Database Design To end up with a good ‘relational database’ application‚ you need to ask: Do I actually need one? If so‚ how far do you want to take it? By this I mean‚ is this to be a simple database to store information about only one‚ or very few‚ related entities (i.e. a list of people who attended a certain event‚ and how they came to hear about the event) which are not likely to change; or a permanent and well used application with several different entities (i.e.
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