Exam 8: Data Modeling Advanced Concepts

Overlapping subtypes are subtypes that contain a unique subset of the supertype entity set.

When selecting a foreign key placement for a 1:1 relationship, place the PK of the entity on the mandatory side in the entity on the optional side as a FK, and make the FK mandatory when ____.

____ is the bottom-up process of identifying a higher-level, more generic entity supertype from lower-level entity subtypes.

Within a specialization hierarchy, every subtype can have ____ supertype(s) to which it is directly related.

In specialization hierarchies with multiple levels of supertype/subtypes, a lower-level supertype inherits all of the attributes and relationships from all of its upper-level subtypes.

In what two cases are composite primary keys particularly useful?

____ keys work with primary keys to properly implement relationships in the relational model.

A ____ occurs when you have one entity in two 1:M relationships to other entities, thus producing an association among the other entities that is not expressed in the model.

The property of ____ enables an entity subtype to inherit the attributes and relationships of the supertype.

Specialization is based on grouping ____________________ characteristics and relationships of the subtypes.

The "____" characteristic of a primary key states the following: The selected primary key must not be composed of any attribute(s) that might be considered a security risk or violation. For example, using a Social Security number as a PK in an EMPLOYEE table is not a good idea.

The entity supertype contains the common characteristics and the entity subtypes contain the unique characteristics of each entity subtype.

Subtypes that contain nonunique subsets of the supertype entity set are known as ____________________ subtypes.

Composite primary keys are particularly useful as identifiers of composite entities, where each primary key combination is allowed ____________________ in the M:N relationship.

The ____________________ is the result of adding more semantic constructs to the original entity relationship (ER) model.

The completeness constraint can be partial or total.

An entity supertype can have disjoint or overlapping entity subtypes.

To model time-variant data, you must create a new entity in a M:N relationship with the original entity.

A design trap occurs when a relationship is improperly or incompletely identified and is therefore represented in a way that is not consistent with the real world.

The ____________________ constraint specifies whether each entity supertype occurrence must also be a member of at least one subtype.