Database textbooks and tutorials emphasize the need to ensure normalization of the database. while database designers and database administrators will generally ensure that their databases follow best practices relative to normalization, many production databases in use today have ignored normalization. some people will argue that a denormalized production database reflects poor design, while others will argue that good database architects will knowingly employ a denormalized database under the right circumstances. after completing the textbook reading and performing some research on the topic of database normalization, discuss your thoughts on the topic of deploying a denormalized database versus a normalized database. under what circumstances, if any, do you consider it reasonable to deploy a denormalized database

When you type the pwd command, you notice that your current location on the linux filesystem is the /usr/local directory. answer the following questions, assuming that your current directory is /usr/local for each question. a. which command could you use to change to the /usr directory using an absolute pathname? b. which command could you use to change to the /usr directory using a relative pathname? c. which command could you use to change to the /usr/local/share/info directory using an absolute pathname? d. which command could you use to change to the /usr/local/share/info directory using a relative pathname? e. which command could you use to change to the /etc directory using an absolute pathname? f. which command could you use to change to the /etc directory using a relative pathname?

Write a grading program for a class with the following grading policies: a. there are two quizzes, each graded on the basis of 10 points. b. there is one midterm exam and one final exam, each graded on the basis of 100 points. c. the final exam counts for 50% of the grade, the midterm counts for 25%, and the two quizzes together count for a total of 25%. (do not forget to normalize the quiz scores. they should be converted to a percentage before they are averaged in.) any grade of 90 or more is an a, any grade of 80 or more (but less than 90) is a b, any grade of 70 or more (but less than 80) is a c, any grade of 60 or more (but less than 70) is a d, and any grade below 60 is an f. the program will read in the student’s scores and output the student’s record, which consists of two quiz and two exam scores as well as the student’s average numeric score for the entire course and final letter grade. define and use a structure for the student reco

Mastercard managers are motivated to increase (1) the number of individuals who have and use a mastercard credit card, (2) the number of banks and other clents who issue mastercards to customers and/or employees, and (3) the number of locations that accept mastercard payments. discuss how mastercard could use its data warehouse to it expand each of these customer bases.