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transparency is the highest level of transparency.The end user or programmer does not need to know that a database is partitioned.

A) Performance
B) Fragmentation
C) Location
D) Local mapping

E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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One of the advantages of a distributed database management system (DDBMS)is security.

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_____ distributed database management system (DDBMS) integrate multiple instances of the same DBMS over a network.

The rule requires that all copies of data fragments be identical.

transparency allows data to be updated simultaneously at several network sites.

Rapid ad hoc data became unnecessary in the quick-response decision-making environment.

The scenario is typical of most mainframe and midrange UNIX/LINUX server database management systems (DBMS)

A request lets a single SQL statement reference data located at several different local or remote DP sites.

A distributed can reference several different local or remote data processing sites.

transparency allows a physically dispersed database to be managed as though it were centralized.

One of the advantages of a distributed database management system (DDBMS)is growth facilitation.

The database description,known as the distributed schema,is the common database schema used by local transaction processors (TPs)to translate user requests into subqueries that will be processed by different data processors (DPs).

A lets a single SQL statement access the data that are to be processed by a single remote database processor.

fragmentation refers to the division of a relation into attribute subsets.

A fully distributed database management system (DBMS)must perform all the functions of a centralized DBMS,and it must handle all necessary functions imposed by the distribution of data and processing.

One of the advantages of a distributed database management system (DDBMS)is operating cost.

A distributed database management system (DDBMS)governs the storage and processing of logically related data over interconnected computer systems.

Distribution transparency is supported by a distributed data dictionary.

In order to manage distributed data,copies or parts of the database processing functions must be distributed to all data storage sites.

Distributed processing does not require: