Exam 12: Distributed Database Management Systems

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transparency is the highest level of transparency. The end user or programmer does not need to know that a database is partitioned.

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One of the advantages of a distributed database management system (DDBMS) is growth facilitation.

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A fully distributed database management system must perform all of the functions of a centralized database management system (DBMS). What are these functions?

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A disadvantage of a distributed database management system (DDBMS) is that:

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The fragment condition indicates that no row has a duplicate, regardless of the fragment in which it is located.

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One of the advantages of a distributed database management system (DDBMS) is processor .

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transparency allows data to be updated simultaneously at several network sites.

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A remote transaction, composed of several requests, may access data at multiple sites.

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transparency allows the system to operate as if it were a centralized database management system.

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management ensures that data move from one consistent state to another.

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Distributed processing does not require a distributed database, and a distributed database does not require distributed processing.

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A request lets a single SQL statement reference data located at several different local or remote DP sites.

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The database description, known as the distributed schema, is the common database schema used by local transaction processors (TPs) to translate user requests into subqueries that will be processed by different data processors (DPs).

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The scenario is typical of most mainframe and midrange UNIX/LINUX server database management systems (DBMS).

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In the single-site processing, single-site data (SPSD) scenario, all processing must be done on the end user's side of the system.

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distributed database systems integrate different types of centralized database management systems (DBMS) over a network.

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In a distributed database management system (DDBMS), occurs to determine the data location of local and remote fragments.

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A distributed can reference several different local or remote data processing sites.

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The guarantees that if a portion of a transaction operation cannot be committed, all changes made at the other sites participating in the transaction will be undone to maintain a consistent database state.

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Rapid ad hoc data became unnecessary in the quick-response decision-making environment.

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