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10. Give an application for a partitioned database. (M:M). A many-to-many association is two-way
It splits the central database into segments or partitions relationship, for occurrence of record t y p e X a n d Y,
that are distributed to their primary users. zero, one or many occurrence exist or
r e c o r d t y p e Y a n d X , respectively. An example
11. Entity refers to anything about which the organization would be a student- professor relationship. Each
wishes to capture data. It may be physical, such as student has a multiple professors each semester, and
inventories, customers, or employees or conceptual such each professor has multiple students each semester.
as sales, A/R or A/P.
14. Distinguish between association and cardinality.
12. Give an application for a replicated database. An association defines a relationship between two entity
Refers to a technique through which an instance of a objects based on common attributes. While cardinality is
database is exactly copied to, transferred to or integrated the degree of association between two entities
with another location.
15.
13. Discuss and give example of the following types
of association: (1:0,1), (1:1), (1:M),and (M:M). 16. Four characteristics of properly designed
relational database tables
(1:0,1). A one-to-one means that for every occurrence in 1. The value of at least one attribute in each occurrence
record type X, either zero or one occurrence exist of (row) must be unique.
record type Y. Example for every employee, only one 2. All attribute values in any column must be of the same
social security exist. class.
3. Each column in a given table must be uniquely named.
4. Tables must conform to the rules of normalization. CHAPTER 11: Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
22. User view - defines how a particular user sees the 4. Online analytical processing (OLAP) includes
portion of the database that he or she is authorized to decision support, modeling, information retrieval, ad hoc
access. reporting/analysis, and what-if analysis.
18.