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Feeling confident with your computing knowledge of Relational Databases?
Spend a few minutes to answer or research the following questions:
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What are tables used for in a relational database?
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How do tables, records and fields relate to each other?
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What are the main data types when storing data values?
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What is the purpose of a primary key?
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What is the purpose of a foreign key?
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What are the three types of relationship in a database?
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Using a school database can you give an example of each type of relationship?
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Why is the customer name not a good field to use as a primary key?
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Why is meant by an autoNumber or autoIncrement field?
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When storing data about cars for a car dealer database, what field could be used as a primary key?
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Why is it sometimes necessary to create a link table?
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What is the difference between an entity and a table?
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What does the acronym CRUD stands for?
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What language is used to run queries in a database? What does it stand for?
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What are the main keywords used in the SQL language to start a CRUD query?
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In a database what is meant by redundant data?
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What is the purpose of normalisation?
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Can you describe the characteristics of a relational database in 1NF, 2NF, 3NF.
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What is meant by “flat file”?
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What is meant by atomic data?
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What is meant by referential integrity?
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In a client-server web application, where is the relational database stored?
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What is meant by “SQL injection”?
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