Test 1 review part 2 Flashcards
is a candidate key that is chosen as the key the DBMS will use to uniquely identify each row in a given relation
primary key
Determinant —> Candidate Key —> ________
Primary key
a set of database specifications that can actually be implemented as a database in a DBMS.
Database design
Each column can hold one value. Each column is of only one kind/domain (e.g. LastName)
INF
Candidate keys are determined through the process of determinant / functional dependency identification; each table is in 1NF and all non-key attributes are determined by only the entire primary key
Second Normal Form (2NF)
each table is in 2NF and no non-key attributes are determined by another non-key attribute; If more than one unique determinant is derived in the 2NF process, the separate theme entities must be separated
Third Normal Form (3NF)
A __________stores data analysis used for research
online analytical processing (OLAP)