Chapter 11 Flashcards
Every DBMS product has an application programming interface (API).
True
Every DBMS product uses the same API.
False
ODBC stands for Open Database Connectivity.
True
If a server is using a Microsoft Windows operating system, it is usually running Internet Information Server (IIS) as its Web server.
True
The most commonly used Web server on servers running the Unix or Linux operating system is Internet Information Server (IIS).
False
If the Web server and the DBMS are running on the same server, the system has a three-tier architecture.
False
ODBC has not had practical success, but has shown great potential for future development.
False
ODBC works with table-like data sources such as relational databases and spreadsheets.
True
ODBC acts as a wrapper for OLE DB.
False
With ODBC, a database and the DBMS that processes it are identified by the data source.
True
With ODBC, the driver manager serves as an intermediary between the application and the DBMS drivers.
True
With ODBC, only a single driver is needed to handle all data source types, such as Oracle, DB2, and Access.
False
In ODBC, the amount of work that the driver must do is largely determined by the degree of SQL-compliance of the data source.
True
A multiple-tier ODBC driver may reformat an SQL request, but it does not actually process the SQL statement.
True
With ODBC, a file data source is available only to the user that created it.
False
In general, the best type of ODBC data source to define for a Web application is a system data source.
True
OLE DB objects are COM objects.
True
OLE DB can be used to access ODBC data sources.
True
OLE DB is an object-oriented interface.
True
In OLE DB, a RecordSet is a more abstract representation of a rowset.
False
Object classes have properties that represent characteristics of the objects in the class.
True
One of the properties of all collections is Count, which is the number of objects in the collection.
True
In OLE DB, all of an object’s properties must be exposed in all interfaces, but not all methods have to be exposed.
False
One important result of OLE DB is that data does not have to be moved or converted from one form to another.
True
Which of the following can only interact with relational database and table-like data structures? A) OLE DB B) ODBC C) ASP D) ADO E) All of the above
B