Tests
acid properties ANS Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
Atomicity ANS all computes or none
Cartestian Product ANS product of two sets A and B, that have their elements paired up to each other
Isolation ANS things do not trip over each other
Durability ANS transactions complete, then permanent in database
Attribute ANS name or column of a region
Relation Schema R ANS is a set {A1, ..., Ak} of attributes, often written as R(A1, ..., Ak), where Ai is the
name of the ith column of the relation
Consistency ANS Property we want to maintain
Tuple ANS a row in a table that contains data about a specific item in a database table
Example: In a 3x3 table, 3 tuples (rows)
relation ANS a set of elements that are usually represented by a table
Ex. A 2x2 table of elements that relate to things is a relation
Superkey ANS An attribute, or set of attributes, that uniquely identifies a tuple within a relation. Not
everything within has to be unique, just overall.
key ANS An attribute, or set of attributes, that uniquely identifies a tuple within a relation. Everything
within has to be unique.