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  1. The design guidelines and priorities for read-only databases are different because read-only databases are never updated.

  2. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  3. The phrase "SALE.CNumber must exist in CUSTOMER.CNumber" is a referential integrity constraint.

  4. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  5. We use the SQL construct COUNT(*) to count the number of rows in a table.

  6. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  7. When you are given a set of tables and asked to create a database to store their data, the first step is to create the new database.

  8. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  9. Multivalued dependencies create harmless anomalies that should be noted, but do not always need to be eliminated.

  10. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  11. One common design problem when designing a database from existing data is the use of a general-purpose remarks column in the received data.

  12. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  13. One common design problem when designing a database from existing data is the presence of missing values, called blank values, in received data.

  14. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  15. Normalization requires programmers to write more complex SQL.

  16. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  17. One common design problem when designing a database from existing data is the presence of inconsistent values in the received data.

  18. A.

     True

    B.

     False


  19. When building a database from an existing set of tables, we may safely assume that there are no multivalued dependencies in the data we are given.

  20. A.

     True

    B.

     False