Database Management Review Questions Chapter 2
Ryan Scot
1. What is a relation?
2. What is a relational database?
3. What is an unnormalized relation? Is it a relation according to the definition of the wordrelation?
4. How is the term attribute used in the relational model? What is a more common name forattribute?
5. Describe the shorthand representation of the structure of a relational database. Illustratethis technique by representing the database for Colonial Adventure Tours shown in Figures 1-15 through 1-19 in Chapter 1. In the short-hand representation, each table is listed, and after each table, all the columns of the table are listed in parentheses. Primary keys are underlined. The short-hand representation
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- Relational Database, Relational model, relation
