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Can invertebrate species of animals like insects feel pain and suffering?
unclear
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What about pain in an animal isn't able to be known with certainty?
presence
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An animals physical and behavioral reactions may be inferred to indicate the presence of what?
pain
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Who do specialists believe can feel pain?
vertebrates
[ "Pain\n\nThe presence of pain in an animal cannot be known for certain, but it can be inferred through physical and behavioral reactions. Specialists currently believe that all vertebrates can feel pain, and that certain invertebrates, like the octopus, might too. As for other animals, plants, or other entities, th...
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No mechanism is known by which what organisms would be able to have a feeling such as pain?
plants
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What do fungi and fruit flies seem to lack?
nociceptors
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What does DBMS stand for?
database management system
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What is the purpose of a DBMS?
to allow the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases
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How are DBMSs classified?
according to the database model that they support
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What is the most popular DBMS?
SQL language
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How is data accessed?
by a "database management system" (DBMS)
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A DBMS consists of what?
an integrated set of computer software
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How much data can a DBMS store?
large quantities
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What is used to recover data if disks suffer a failure?
RAID
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How can large quantities of data be accessed?
Hardware database accelerators
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What do most database applications contain?
DBMSs
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What is required for a modern DBMS to function?
standard operating system
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How long can it take to create a DBMS?
thousands of human years
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Name three DBMSs that have been used since the 1970s.
Adabas, Oracle and DB2
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How is the cost to create a DBMS distributed?
spread over a large number of users
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Name an example of a general-purpose DBMS.
an email system
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How are many databases accessed?
application software
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How do administrators work with the DBMS?
through dedicated interfaces
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What is a way for programmers to use the DBMS?
wire protocol
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Who created the relational model of DBMS?
Edgar F. Codd
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Instead of using links, how was information found in a relational model?
by content
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In what decade did computer hardware become able to handle a relational system?
1980s
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What type of system in still prominent to this day?
relational systems
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What database language is the most prominent?
SQL
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When were DBMSs first used commercially?
mid-1960s
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What group discovered COBOL?
Database Task Group
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Why was COBOL created?
Interest in a standard
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What was the standard protocol called?
CODASYL approach
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When was the standard protocol completed?
1971
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What was the DBMS created by IBM called?
Information Management System (IMS)
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What was the purpose of the IBM DBMS?
the Apollo program
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What is the classification of IMS?
hierarchical database
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What was the name of Bachman's Turing Award presentation in 1973?
The Programmer as Navigator
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Who proposed using a table to store data?
Codd
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How is data accessed in a table?
A linked-list system
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What model solved the problem of databases where information was missing?
relational
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What system assists a user in seeing a table?
DBMS
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How was the relational model able to improve over time?
without constant rewriting of links and pointers
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What is the relationship called in a hierarchical model?
one-to-many
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What is the relationship called in a navigational model?
many-to-many
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What is a third type of model that can be combined with heirarchical and navigation models?
tabular
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How is a database system frequently used?
to track information about users
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How is information stored in a navigational system?
in a single record
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What happens to blank data fields in a navigational system?
not be placed in the database
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How is information stored in a relational system?
normalized into a user table
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How is information accessed in a relational model?
a "key"
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What is a key used for?
uniquely defining a particular record
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What technique is used to collect into one place?
re-linking
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How is data in an optional table accessed?
by searching for this key
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How does a program collect information using a navigational system?
require programs to loop
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What is used to solve the problem of looping?
a set-oriented language
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What computer language came about as a result of the looping problem?
SQL
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What type of math was used to create a system to find data sets?
tuple calculus
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Who used tuple calculus to show the functionality of databases?
Codd
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Who used Codd's paper at Berkeley to improve a geographical database?
Eugene Wong and Michael Stonebraker
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What was the name of the project to create a geographical database?
INGRES
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When was INGRES first tested?
1973
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What computer language was used in INGRES to access data?
QUEL
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Is QUEL still used to access data in INGRES?
INGRES moved to the emerging SQL standard
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What is a CAFS accelerator?
a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities
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Did the CAFS accelerator work as planned?
efforts were generally unsuccessful
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How are today's database systems run?
general-purpose hardware
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Name a company that is still working on the CAFS accellerator?
Netezza and Oracle (Exadata)
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What is the system IBM created using Codd's research?
System R
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When was IBM's system released?
1974/5
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What did System R work on to change the way data was stored?
multi-table systems
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When customers first tested IBM's system, what computer language had been added?
SQL
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What was the name of the database product created by IBM?
SQL/DS, and, later, Database 2 (DB2)
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Who created dBASE?
C. Wayne Ratliff
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Why was dBASE successful?
lightweight and easy for any computer user to understand out of the box
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Why was dBASE unique?
data manipulation is done by dBASE
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What is a benefit of using dBASE?
managing space allocation
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In the 1990s, what type of programming changed the handling of databases?
object-oriented
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What term is used for the difficulty in database table and programmed object translation?
object-relational impedance mismatch
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How is the problem of object-relational impedance mismatch corrected?
object-oriented language
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What is the library programmers use to solve object-relational impedance mismatch?
object-relational mappings (ORMs)
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What kind of database is XML?
structured document-oriented database
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Where are XML databases frequently used?
enterprise database management
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How is XML used in enterprise database management?
machine-to-machine data
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What type of processing is used in enterprise database software?
ACID-compliant transaction processing
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What explains the difficulty in a system containing availability, consistency, and partition tolerance guarantees?
the CAP theorem
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How many guarantees will most databases tolerate?
two
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What is used to offer a balance in guarantees?
eventual consistency
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What should a conceptual data model do?
reflects the structure of the information to be held
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What makes a successful data model?
accurately reflect the possible state of the external world being modeled
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What must one understand in order to create a successful data model?
the application domain
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Asking questions about an organization's needs will help to create what?
definitions of the terminology used for entities
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In what form is the output of a logical database design?
schema
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Which data model is displayed as a specific model that uses DBMS?
logical
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A conceptual data model in separate from the choice of what?
database technology
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What decisions must be made in the last stage of database design?
performance, scalability, recovery, security
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What is an important goal in in this final stage?
data independence
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What factor is reflected in performance requirements?
Physical design
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How many conceptual or physical views of data are there?
one
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How many different external views of data are there?
any number
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