Data Management Foundations WGU C175. (WGUC175)

What does modality refer to? How does it appear on ER diagram? - ANSWERRefers to the MINIMUM number of times an instance in one entity can be associated with instance of another entity (minima) Appears as a 0 or 1 on the relationship line, next to cardinality Define: Referential Integrity - ANSWER- Requires that ALL foreign key values must either be fully NULL or match some primary key value 4 Ways Referential Integrity can be violated: - ANSWER- 1. Primary key is updated 2. Foreign key i...

What is a broad definition of data? Raw facts that are captured on printed or digital media What are data? Facts that are collected and stored in a database system What is a determining characteristic of unstructured data? It does not follow a data model. Which is true about flat files? They contain no internal hierarchical organization. Which technology has no internal hierarchy? Flat files How were data retrieved before database management systems? Sequentially from simple files In which...

What is a broad definition of data? Raw facts that are captured on printed or digital media What are data? Facts that are collected and stored in a database system What is a determining characteristic of unstructured data? It does not follow a data model. Which is true about flat files? They contain no internal hierarchical organization. Which technology has no internal hierarchy? Flat files How were data retrieved before database management systems? Sequentially from simple files In...

They can serve as a communication tool between the users and designers. Which of the following is true of business rules? entity A(n) _______ is anything about which data are to be collected and stored. XML/Hybrid data model Oracle 11g is an example of the _______. entity instance Each row in the relational table is known as a(n) relational data model MySQL is an example of the _______. attribute A(n) _______ is the equivalent of a field in a file system. entity relationship The ___...

ad hoc query A "spur-of-the-moment" question analytical database A database focused primarily on storing historical data and business metrics used for tactical or strategic decision making availability In the context of data security, it refers to the accessibility of data whenever required by authorized users and for authorized purposes centralized database A database located at a single site cloud database A database that is created and maintained using cloud services, such as Microso...

Why databases? - -·Helps organizations use data / information as a resource to make decisions File based structure (Prior to BDMS) - -o Attempt to computerize old manual filing system o Was easy to retrieve small amounts of information from o As data grew, it became difficult to locate and retrieve information o Retrieval speed depended on file structure and how data was organized within the structure File types that utilized file based structure - -Flat files, heap files, Index files, has...