Data Management and Databases

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Why does normalization improve transactional database design?

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It reduces redundancy and update anomalies.

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Why is a data lake useful for analytics with diverse data?

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It stores raw structured and unstructured data in native format.

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Why are OLTP databases usually normalized?

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They are optimized for frequent, day-to-day transactions.

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Why can ratio data support more statistical operations than nominal data?

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It has equal intervals and a true zero.

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