1.5. Review Questions

  1. Name the most important element of a relational database and its components.

  2. Which type of table relationship associates more than one record in a given table with more than one record in another table?

  3. What type of key can be used to enforce referential integrity between two tables in a database?

  4. What are some reasons why using a spreadsheet is not a good alternative to using a large-scale database?

  5. What are some of the benefits of abstraction in an object-relational database management system?

  6. What object-relational feature of Oracle eases the transition between relational and object-relational applications?

  7. What are the three steps in the ERA process for database design?

  8. Name the three Oracle-compliant ANSI SQL standards.

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