Chapter 5
Chapter 5
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. D
5. D
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. C
10. A
11. B
12. C
Critical Thinking
1. For the given college environment table notation, I would need to break down the
original table into three smaller tables to attain third normal form (3NF). The
student-related data is contained in the first table, StudentDetails, which has
StudentName as an attribute and StudentNum as the primary key. CourseDetails,
the second table, uses CourseNum as the primary key and Description as an
attribute to store information about courses. Finally, by utilizing foreign keys that
point to the primary keys in StudentDetails and CourseDetails, the Enrollment
database creates the association between students and courses.
2. A systematic technique has been used to convert the student activity data into third
normal form (3NF). With StudentID serving as the primary key and StudentName as
an attribute, the StudentDetails table was first constructed to record unique
student information. Concurrently, the ActivityDetails table was created to house
information on different activities. ActivityNum serves as the primary key, and the
attributes include ActivityName and Advisor. Lastly, using foreign keys that
referenced the main keys from StudentDetails and ActivityDetails, the
StudentActivities table was created to create links between students and activities.
JC consulting Case Exercises
1. A
2. C
3. D
4. A
5. A
6. A
7. D
8. B
9. D
Critical Thinking
2. Find Unique Titles: To begin, find the unique values in the Title field of
the Employees database. Make the Lookup Table: To save unique titles,
create a new table called Titles and give it a single field. Add Original
Titles: To the Titles table, add the unique titles.
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. G
5. M
6. P
7. A
8. C
9. D
10. G
Critical Thinking
1. No, this is not the appropriate method of data collection. Recording the data as a
number of minutes instead of strings like “60 minutes” or “1 hour” would be a
better method.
2. The following are the main procedures for converting the information in the Pitt
Fitness spreadsheet into a normalized database: 1. Examine the information 2.
Make distinct tables. 3. Describe the connections. 4. Make the tables uniform. 5.
With reference to the duration.
1. C
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. H
7. L
8. R
9. W
10. ab
Critical Thinking
1. Due to a number of factors, such as privacy concerns, data modification, legal
limits, and uniqueness, using a Social Security number as the primary key in a
database is typically not advised.