Database Reference
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1.35
How do database applications read and write database data?
1.36
Name the five DBMS products described in this chapter, and compare them in terms of
power, features, and difficulty of use.
1.37
List several consequences of a poorly designed database.
1.38
Explain two ways that a database can be designed from existing data.
1.39
What is a data warehouse? What is a data mart?
1.40
Describe the general process of designing a database for a new information system.
1.41
Explain two ways that databases can be redesigned.
1.42
What does the term
database migration
mean?
1.43
Summarize the various ways that you might work with database technology.
1.44
What job functions does a knowledge worker perform?
1.45
What job functions does a database administrator perform?
1.46
Explain the meaning of the domains in Figure 1-23.
1.47
What need drove the development of the first database technology?
1.48
What are Data Language/I and CODASYL DBTG?
1.49
Who was E. F. Codd?
1.50
What were the early objections to the relational model?
1.51
Name two early relational DBMS products.
1.52
What are some of the reasons for the success of Oracle Database?
1.53
Name three early personal computer DBMS products.
1.54
What happened to the products in your answer to Review Question 1.53?
1.55
What was the purpose of OODBMS products? State two reasons that OODBMS prod-
ucts were not successful.
1.56
What characteristic of HTTP was a problem for database processing applications?
1.57
What is an open source DBMS product? Which of the five DBMS products that you
named in answering Review Question 1.36 is historically an open source DBMS product?
1.58
What has been the response of companies that sell proprietary DBMS products to the
open source DBMS products? Include two examples in your answer.
1.59
What is XML? What comment did Bill Gates make regarding XML?
1.60
What is the NoSQL movement? Name two applications that rely on NoSQL databases.
To perform the following projects, you will need a computer that has Microsoft access
installed. If you have no experience working with Microsoft access, read appendix a
before you proceed.
For this set of project questions, we will create a Microsoft access database for
the Wedgewood Pacific Corporation (WPC). Founded in 1957 in Seattle, Washington,
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