Oracle 12c: SQL
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ISBN: 9781305251038
Author: Joan Casteel
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1, Problem 2RQ
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Entity:
Entity is the basic block for building the data collected about person, place, event, or thing.
- Entities represent attributes that can have multiple instances.
- To locate the information in the entity, they have a name, short description about what they are and identifier.
- Identifiers are used to identify each and every individual instance of an entity.
- Relationship denotes the link between the entities...
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Oracle 12c: SQL
Ch. 1 - Prob. 1RQCh. 1 - Prob. 2RQCh. 1 - Prob. 3RQCh. 1 - Prob. 4RQCh. 1 - Discuss the problems that can be caused by data...Ch. 1 - Explain the role of a primary key.Ch. 1 - Prob. 7RQCh. 1 - Prob. 8RQCh. 1 - What type of relationship can’t be stored in a...Ch. 1 - Identify at least three reasons an organization...
Ch. 1 - Prob. 1MCCh. 1 - Prob. 2MCCh. 1 - Prob. 3MCCh. 1 - Prob. 4MCCh. 1 - Prob. 5MCCh. 1 - Prob. 6MCCh. 1 - Prob. 7MCCh. 1 - Which of the following has no partial or...Ch. 1 - Prob. 9MCCh. 1 - Which of the following has no partial dependencies...Ch. 1 - Which of the following has no repeating groups but...Ch. 1 - Prob. 12MCCh. 1 - Prob. 13MCCh. 1 - A unique identifier for a data row that consists...Ch. 1 - Which of the following symbols represents an...Ch. 1 - Prob. 16MCCh. 1 - Which of the following represents a field in a...Ch. 1 - Which of the following defines a relationship in...Ch. 1 - When part of the data in a table depends on a...Ch. 1 - Which of the following is used to join data...Ch. 1 - Which tables and fields would you access to...Ch. 1 - Prob. 2HOACh. 1 - Prob. 3HOACh. 1 - Prob. 4HOACh. 1 - Access path A database table is composed of...Ch. 1 - Prob. 6HOACh. 1 - Prob. 7HOACh. 1 - Prob. 8HOACh. 1 - Prob. 9HOACh. 1 - Prob. 10HOA
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