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Unit 1 Fundamentals of Computer Science

Quick questions on Organisation of data: files, relational databases, normalisation and SQL - WJEC A-Level Computer Science

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What is normalisation?
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Normalisation is the process of organising tables to remove redundancy (repeated data) and the anomalies redundancy causes: the insert anomaly (cannot add data without unrelated data), the update anomaly (a change must be made in many places) and the delete anomaly (removing one fact loses another). It splits repeating or dependent data into separate, linked tables.
What is q1?
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State the SQL keyword used to filter the rows returned by a query. [1 mark]
What is q2?
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Give one example of a validation check and state what it tests. [2 marks]

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