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Area 3: Database Design and Development

Quick questions on Referential integrity, entity integrity and validation - SQA Higher Computing Science

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State what entity integrity guarantees about a primary key. [2 marks]
What is q2?
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State the validation check that limits a field to an allowed set of values. [1 mark]
What is q3?
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Explain one problem that referential integrity prevents. [1 mark]

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