Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
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ISBN: 9781337627900
Author: Carlos Coronel, Steven Morris
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 2, Problem 1RQ
Program Plan Intro
Data Model:
- Data Model refers to the logical inter relationship and the data flow involved between different data elements.
- It defines how data is processed, connected and stored inside the system.
- A data model can be either concrete or abstract.
- It consists of components such as data types, data items, data sources, event sources, and links.
- The three styles of data model are conceptual data model, physical data model, and logical data model.
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Importance of Data Models:
- The main function of a data model is that they help to understand complexity of real world environment.
- The data model is used by the
database designer to enhance the interaction among designers, application programmers, and end users. - Data models will help to represent the required data and the format that is used for different businesses processes.
- They help to prevent data redundancy.
- The database design tools have made the development of data models to possibly diminish the database design error potential.
- It also helps to eliminate the discrepancies between the database designs components and the real world data environment.
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Chapter 2 Solutions
Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
Ch. 2 - Prob. 1RQCh. 2 - What is a business rule, and what is its purpose...Ch. 2 - How do you translate business rules into data...Ch. 2 - Prob. 4RQCh. 2 - Explain how the entity relationship (ER) model...Ch. 2 - Prob. 6RQCh. 2 - Prob. 7RQCh. 2 - Prob. 8RQCh. 2 - Prob. 9RQCh. 2 - Prob. 10RQ
Ch. 2 - What is a relationship, and what three types of...Ch. 2 - Give an example of each of the three types of...Ch. 2 - What is a table, and what role does it play in the...Ch. 2 - Prob. 14RQCh. 2 - Prob. 15RQCh. 2 - Prob. 16RQCh. 2 - Prob. 17RQCh. 2 - Prob. 18RQCh. 2 - Prob. 19RQCh. 2 - Prob. 21RQCh. 2 - Prob. 22RQCh. 2 - Prob. 1PCh. 2 - Prob. 2PCh. 2 - Prob. 3PCh. 2 - Prob. 4PCh. 2 - Prob. 5PCh. 2 - Using Figure P2.6 as your guide, work Problems 68....Ch. 2 - Prob. 7PCh. 2 - Prob. 8PCh. 2 - Typically, a hospital patient receives medications...Ch. 2 - Prob. 10PCh. 2 - Prob. 11PCh. 2 - Prob. 12PCh. 2 - Prob. 13PCh. 2 - Prob. 14PCh. 2 - Prob. 15PCh. 2 - Prob. 16PCh. 2 - Prob. 17P
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