DBMS-Distributed Database Systems

DBMS-Distributed Database Systems
21. Data replication decreases the availability of data to read-only transactions.
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22. In distributed systems, each site generates unique local timestamp using either a logical counter or the local clock and concatenates it with the site identifier.
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23. In disributted locking, the DDBS maintains a lock manager at each site whose function is to administer the lock and unlock requests for those data items that are stored at that site.
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24. In distributed systems, each site generates unique local tmestamp using either a logical counter or the local clock and concatenates it with the site identifier.
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  • FALSE
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25. In a recovery control, transactionl atomicity must be ensured.
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26. The two-phase commit protocol guarantees that all database servers participating in a distributed transaction either all commit or all abort.
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27. The use of 2PC is not tranasparent to the users.
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28. A distributed database system allows applications to access data from
  • local database
  • remote database
  • both local and remote database
  • None of these
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29. In homogeneous DDBS,
  • there are several sites, each running their own applications on the same DBMS software.
  • all sites have identical DBMS software
  • all users (or clients) use identical software
  • All of these
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30. In heterogeneous DDBS
  • different sites run under the control of different DBMSs, essentially autonomously.
  • different sites are connected somehow to enable access to data from multiple sites.
  • different sites may use different schemas, and different DBMS software.
  • All of these.
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