A Database Table Consists of the Following Columns: Employee's Name

Multiple Choice

A database table consists of the following columns: employee's name, SS#, job-title, hiring-date, years-in-job, base-salary. A bonus calculation program, a personnel promotion application program, and a payroll application program all use this table. To implement a policy change in personnel promotion, the following column is added to the table: highest-college-degree. This new column is not used by the payroll program or by the bonus calculation program.
-The ability to add the new column without requiring changes to all of the application programs strongly relates to the following feature of modern database systems:

A) Nonprocedural programming
B) Transaction processing
C) Data independence
D) Data sharing