DATABASE SYSTEM CONCEPTS (LOOSELEAF)
DATABASE SYSTEM CONCEPTS (LOOSELEAF)
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Author: SILBERSCHATZ
Publisher: MCG
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Data management is creating, organizing, storing and managing the data collected and created by any organization.Effective data management is a crucial part of today's world. Data management provides analytical information on the vast amount of data coll…
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Reason for having weak entity sets in a schema:

  • To avoid inconsistencies which is caused by duplicating the key of the strong entity.
  • It can be stored physically with their strong entities...

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Ch. 6 - Prob. 1PECh. 6 - Consider a database that includes the entity sets...Ch. 6 - Design an E-R diagram for keeping track of the...Ch. 6 - Prob. 4PECh. 6 - Prob. 5PECh. 6 - Prob. 6PECh. 6 - Prob. 7PECh. 6 - Consider a relation such as sec_course, generated...Ch. 6 - Suppose the advisor relationship set were...Ch. 6 - Prob. 10PE
Ch. 6 - Prob. 11PECh. 6 - Prob. 12PECh. 6 - Prob. 13PECh. 6 - Prob. 14ECh. 6 - Prob. 15ECh. 6 - Prob. 16ECh. 6 - Prob. 17ECh. 6 - Consider two entity sets A and B that both have...Ch. 6 - Prob. 19ECh. 6 - Prob. 20ECh. 6 - Prob. 21ECh. 6 - Prob. 22ECh. 6 - Prob. 23ECh. 6 - Design a database for an airline. The database...Ch. 6 - Prob. 25ECh. 6 - Design a generalization – specialization...Ch. 6 - Explain the distinction between disjoint and...Ch. 6 - Explain the distinction between total and partial...
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