Modern Database Management (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780133544619
Author: Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Ramesh Venkataraman, Heikki Topi
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.32PAE
Suppose you are designing a default value for the age field in a student record at your university. What possible values would you consider, and why? How might the default vary by other characteristics about the student, such as school within the university or degree sought?
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An insurance company needs to store their salespeople’s information who are selling their insurance policies. They already have a database with multiple tables, one of the tables (Salesperson) stores information about each salesperson along with the bonus percent they receive, based on the city where the insurance is sold. The table has the following fields:
Salesperson(spID, spName, spBirthDate,spCitySelling, bonusPercent)
spID: Unique identification number of the salesperson.
spName: Full name of the salesperson.
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Modern Database Management (12th Edition)
Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.1RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.2RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.3RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.4RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.5RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.6RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.7RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.8RQCh. 5 - Explain why you sometimes have to reserve much...Ch. 5 - Why are field values sometimes coded?
Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.11RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.12RQCh. 5 - Explain why normalized relations may not comprise...Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.14RQCh. 5 - List three common situations that suggest that...Ch. 5 - Explain the reasons why some experts are against...Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.17RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.18RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.19RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.20RQCh. 5 - Prob. 5.21RQCh. 5 - State nine rules of thumb for choosing indexes.Ch. 5 - One of the strongest recommendations regarding...Ch. 5 - Explain why an index is useful only if there is...Ch. 5 - Indexing can clearly be very beneficial. Why...Ch. 5 - Consider the following two relations for...Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.28PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.29PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.30PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.31PAECh. 5 - Suppose you are designing a default value for the...Ch. 5 - When a student has not chosen a major at a...Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.34PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.35PAECh. 5 - Consider the relations in Problem and Exercise...Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.37PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.38PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.39PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.40PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.41PAECh. 5 - Consider the relations specified in Problem and...Ch. 5 - Prob. 5.43PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.44PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.45PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.46PAECh. 5 - Prob. 5.47PAECh. 5 - Problems and Exercises 8-65 through 8-68 refer to...Ch. 5 - Refer to the large Pine Valley Furniture Company...Ch. 5 - Problems and Exercises 8-65i5 through 8-68 refer...Ch. 5 - Refer to Figure 4-5 0. For each of the following...
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