Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is denormalization?
💡 Hint: Think about its relationship to normalization.
Question 2
Easy
Name one advantage of denormalization.
💡 Hint: What happens to the complexity of queries?
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Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What is denormalization?
- A process to reduce data storage
- A method to optimize read operations
- A technique to increase redundancy
💡 Hint: Focus on ops about data retrieval.
Question 2
True or False: Denormalization increases the number of joins needed for queries.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Think about the outcome when you merge tables.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
Design a simple schema containing Customers, Orders, and Products. Describe how you would denormalize this schema for a reporting tool and the impacts on both reads and writes.
💡 Hint: Think about the relationships between these entities and the best way to consolidate them.
Question 2
In a project where you optimize a database for online shopping with numerous reads, explain your approach to decide between normalization and denormalization.
💡 Hint: Evaluate the project's needs in terms of data integrity versus performance.
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