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

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

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    • 3. 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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    • 4. 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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    • 5. 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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    • 6. The semijoin approach saves network traffic.

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    • 7. Replication may use either synchronous or asynchronous distributed database technologies, although asynchronous technologies are more typical in a replicated environment.

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    • 8. The cost to perform a snapshot refresh may depend on whether the snapshot is simple or complex.

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    • 9. Each site (or node) in a distributed system is subject to the same types of failure as in a centralized system.

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    • 10. If you know all the possible values that an attribute can have, you can enumerate those values in ODL.

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