Alyssa Sirico
Chapter 2 Review Questions
CRJ 307
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 word relation?
4.How is the term attribute used in the relational model? What is a more common name for attribute?
5.Describe the shorthand representation of the structure of a relational database. Illustrate this technique by representing the database for Colonial Adventure Tours shown in Figures 1-5 through 1-19 in Chapter 1.To display the shorthand representation of the structure of a relational database, you write the name of the table and then, within parentheses, list all the columns in the table.
