Exam 9: Database Management Approaches

With respect to UML,the type of diagram most relevant to database design is the ____________________.

With respect to the definition of data warehouse,____ means that the data is read-only.

The ____________________ symbol in a class diagram indicates whether other classes can view or update the value in the attribute.

____ implies that no site should depend on another site to perform its database functions.

A global deadlock occurs at a single site in a distributed database.

A DDBMS that has at least two sites at which the local DBMSs are different is known as a ____.

E-commerce between organizations is called ____________________.

When the data is organized by entity rather than by the application that uses the data,it is called ____.

When users interact with an RDBMS,they use transactions. These types of systems are called ____ systems.

A(n) ____ consists of rows that contain consolidated and summarized data.

Each ____ contains a single-part primary key that serves as an index for the fact table and also contains other fields associated with the primary key value.

____ is the ability of a computer system to continue to function well as utilization of the system increases.

In ____ systems,you create actions as part of data manipulation rather than as part of the data definition.

Web pages that display the same content for all Web clients are called ____________________ Web pages.

If one class is a subclass of a second class,the second class is called a(n) ____________________ of the first class.