ch7 Flashcards

(27 cards)

1
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what is data modeling

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is formal way of representing data that are used and created by a business

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2
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what is the one of the most common data modeling technique used in the industry

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entity relationship diagramming

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3
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(ERD)stand for

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entity relationship diagram

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what is entity relationship diagram

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is picture which shows the information that is created stored and used by business system

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5
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what is the meaning of crow foot that closest to the chemical request

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that an lca may make many chemical requast

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6
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what is the meaning of the two bars closest to the lca

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that the chemical request is made by exactly one lca

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7
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what is the elemants of entity relationship diagram

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entities
attributes
relationships

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8
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what is entity in ERD

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IS the building block for a data model

it is person place event or thing about which data is collected described in capital letters

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9
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what should entities have

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name

short dicribtion

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10
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what is attribute

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is some type of information that is captured about an entity

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mcq
attribute is descibed as
noun or verb

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noun

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12
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the attribute that serve as identifier are noted by ……….next to the attribute name

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asterisk

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13
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if we put the two attribute the same

what we should do

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do concatenation +to be different from the other
we can find a field that make it different from the other
we can generate random number for it

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14
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what is relationship in erd ?

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are associtions between entities and they are shown by lines that connect the entities together

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15
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what is the type of relationship

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parent

child

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16
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what is parent

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the first entity in the relationship

17
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what is the child

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the second entity in the relationship

18
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what is the attribute of relationship

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should be active verbs
the top words read from parent to child
the bottom words read from child to parent

19
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what is the two prosperities of relationships?

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cardinality

modality

20
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what is the cardinality

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which is the ratio of parent instance to child instances

21
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what is the meaning of 1:1

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relationship means that one instance of the parent entity is associated with on instance of child entity
bar near of the child entity and bar near to parent entity

22
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what is the meaning 1:N

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one to many one parent entity to many child entity

23
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what is the meaning of M:N

24
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what is modality

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which refers to whether or not an instance of child entity if the child entity can exist without parent entity

null or not null
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what is null meaning in the erd and not null
null that chemical can exist without the chemical request and not null that cannot be chemical request without chemical
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what is data dictionary
is in case tool is where the analyst goes to define or look up information about the entities attributes and relationships
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what is metadata
the information you see in the data dictionary | is anything that describes an entity attribute or relationship