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  1. The design guidelines and priorities for read-only databases are different because read-only databases are never updated.

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  3. The phrase "SALE.CNumber must exist in CUSTOMER.CNumber" is a referential integrity constraint.

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     True

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  5. We use the SQL construct COUNT(*) to count the number of rows in a table.

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     True

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  7. When you are given a set of tables and asked to create a database to store their data, the first step is to create the new database.

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  9. Multivalued dependencies create harmless anomalies that should be noted, but do not always need to be eliminated.

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  11. One common design problem when designing a database from existing data is the use of a general-purpose remarks column in the received data.

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     False

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  13. One common design problem when designing a database from existing data is the presence of missing values, called blank values, in received data.

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  15. Normalization requires programmers to write more complex SQL.

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  17. One common design problem when designing a database from existing data is the presence of inconsistent values in the received data.

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     False

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  19. When building a database from an existing set of tables, we may safely assume that there are no multivalued dependencies in the data we are given.

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