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  • Asynchronous technology can result in unsatisfactorily slow response time because the distributed DBMS is spending considerable time checking that an update is accurately and completely propagated across the network.


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    • 1. An increasingly popular option for data distribution as well as for fault tolerance of any database is to store a separate copy of the database at each of two or more sites.

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    • 2. The problem of concurrency control is more complex in a distributed database.

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    • 3. The purpose of timestamping is to avoid the use of locks.

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    • 4. A distributed unit of work allows various statements within a unit of work to refer to multiple remote DBMS locations.

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    • 5. Databases that are stored on computers at multiple locations and are not interconnected by a network are known as distributed databases.

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    • 6. In a semijoin, only the joining attribute is sent from one site to another, and then only the required rows are returned.

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    • 7. With failure transparency, all of the actions of a transaction are committed or none of them are committed.

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    • 8. Data replication is favored where most process requests are read-only and where the data are relatively static.

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    • 9. With asynchronous technology, if any copy of a data item is updated anywhere on the network, the same update is immediately applied to all other copies or it is aborted.

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    • 10. The semijoin approach saves network traffic.

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