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    Relational Database

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    What is Relational Database? Having and using a relational database prevents the duplication of data. Instead of saving lots of information within one table, you could divide up the table into information, for example in a college database you might have some tables with pupil names, age and addresses in a primary field like a pupil ID number. The field could then be related to another table which could be enrolment as a pupil “enrols” onto a “course” which would then be linked on another table

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    Personnel Readiness Overview (DPRO) is a complex management information system. It provides easy access to thousands of metrics that are updated daily and that pulls the information from numerous Human Resource systems. This plethora of information enables users at all levels to create custom reports that cover the areas of; strength management, key readiness indicators (KRIs), retention, evaluations, and medical readiness. b. The DPRO information system provides users with access to numerous data

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    clients and staff information in the database; these information are like the names, addresses, contact information, employment history, medical conditions, convictions and credit history. Databases are very easily accessed. It is also easier to cross reference information that are stored in the database than if the records were paper-based, the computers

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    Authority Control

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    Authority control is a method of controlling and limiting where the object in the catalogue gets shelved under, and what terminology can be used to search for said objects. There are two types of authority control for this database and those are name and subject. Now, name authority control is generally used for large collections, to narrow a search or when there are too many subject terms to search by. To use name authority, it identifies the object in the collection by its title, publisher or

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    ProQuest database one must take some things into consideration in order to get the best retrievals possible for your informational needs. While searching on most databases patrons are allowed to use subject and keyword searches. “Natural language is the language people speak and write” (Chu 53). It is language that individuals use on a daily basis as opposed to programmed language. It is more common for individuals to use search terms of a natural language to search for items within the database. Chu

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    Association Quiz

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    Has_and_belongs_to_many: b | There is Join Table, this is a many-to- many association. A.b returns a collection of b records whose ids are in the same row as this a’s id on the join table b. Identify and describe the mechanism provided by relational databases to model associations. One record has a foreign key for another record in a different table.A foreign key is the id of a record in a different table. This is done through BU CS-545 Spring 2016 Final 287 convention. If table a belongs to b, then

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    NT1330 Unit 1 Essay

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    distributed database system has multiple nodes (computers) and if one fails then others are available to do the job. So we can say that redundancy and replication of the DB increase security and accessibility. Reliability refers to system live time, that is, system is running efficiently most of the time. Availability is the probability that the system is continuously available (usable or accessible) during a time interval. Improved performance: A distributed DBMS fragments the database to keep data

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    P22 Competitor Analysis

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    I researched a few type foundries. I was not aware until now that they were even called this or existed. I found this site, P22 Type Foundry. They create computer typefaces inspired by Art & History. They also offer customer fonts and licensing agreement options. P22 was created in 1944 by Marcel Duchamp and Joan Miro. They were surrealists. They set out to create fonts in a new way. They would put each of their ideas onto flat cards and floppy disks and sell them to museums. They even got a child

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    Relational database normalization is the process of decomposing relations with anomalies to produce well structured relations. This paper delves into relational database normalization giving the reason why a database schema in third normal form is considered to be of higher quality than an un-normalized database schema. Relational database normalization entails organizing database and it includes the creation of tables as well as relationships establishment between the tables using designed rules

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    Pt2520 Unit 6 Steps

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    take in setting up a database for a particular enterprise. Following are the six steps that I would take in setting up a database: 1. Requirement analysis Understanding the business model of enterprise and identifying the entities of that model is the first step in setting up database. Requirements analysis includes tasks of determining the needs or conditions to meet. Requirement specification document will be generated at the end of this step. 2. Defining a model Database model defines the logical

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