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What is the purpose of the object structure described in the text?
What is the purpose of the (i, c, v)
representation described in the text?
What is the purpose of the 'atom' type constructor described in the text?
What is the purpose of the 'tuple' (or 'struct') type constructor described in the text?
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What is the purpose of the 'collection' type constructors (e.g., 'set', 'list', 'array', 'bag') described in the text?
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What is the difference between an 'array' and a 'list' as described in the text?
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What are single-valued or atomic types?
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What is the purpose of the struct (or tuple) constructor?
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Which of the following is NOT considered a collection or multivalued type constructor?
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What is a requirement for the elements in a particular collection value?
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What is the purpose of the atom constructor?
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Which of the following statements is true about type constructors like set(T) and list(T)?
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What is one of the key missing features in the relational database concept?
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an Object-Oriented Database Management System (OODMS)?
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What does the term 'Object Orientation' refer to?
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Which of the following is NOT one of the areas where Object Orientation has made contributions?
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What does the term 'object identity' refer to in the context of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems?
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What does an object consist of, according to the text?
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What does the OODDL define for the Employee and Department classes?
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What is the purpose of the create_emp
operation defined for the Employee
class?
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What is the purpose of the assign_emp
operation defined for the Department
class?
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What is the purpose of the no_of_emps
operation defined for the Department
class?
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What is the difference between transient and persistent objects, as mentioned in the text?
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What is the purpose of the naming mechanism mentioned in the text?
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What is the purpose of a persistent object name?
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How are most objects in a large database made persistent?
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What does it mean for an object B to be reachable from an object A?
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What is the purpose of creating a persistent named object of type DepartmentSet
?
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What is the role of the AllDepartments
persistent named object in the example?
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What is the purpose of the create_dept
operation shown in the example?
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