Database Administration Questions

The nearest stars to Earth are in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system, about 4.37 light-years away. One of these stars, Proxima Centauri, is slightly closer, at 4.26 light-years.

Of all the stars closer than 15 light-years, only two are spectral type G, similar to our sun: Alpha Centauri A and Tau Ceti. The majority are M-type red dwarf stars.

Only nine of the stars in this area is bright enough to be seen by the naked human eye from Earth. These brightest stars include Alpha Centauri A and B, Sirius A, Epsilon Eridani, Procyon, 61 Cygni A and B, Epsilon Indi A and Tau Ceti.

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.

From the given data,

Manogna’s age be 0 when she was born.

Her father’s age = 38 years

Her mother’s age when Manogna’s brother who is 4 years younger to her was born = 36 years

=> Manogna’s mother age when Manogna was born = 36 - 4 = 32 years

Hence, the difference between the ages of Manogna’s parents = 38 - 32 = 6 years.

Plants that grow in Saline Water are called Halophytes.

Encoding refers to the getting information into memory.

The logical answer for a puzzle is that the letter 'W'.

A rainbow is a spectrum of light that appears in the sky when sunlight is refracted through raindrops or other drops of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They have inspired much popular folklore, including the belief that a leprechaun can be found with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Candidate Key – A Candidate Key can be any column or a combination of columns that can qualify as unique key in database. There can be multiple Candidate Keys in one table. Each Candidate Key can qualify as Primary Key. 

Primary Key – A Primary Key is a column or a combination of columns that uniquely identify a record. Only one Candidate Key can be Primary Key.

• One needs to be very careful in selecting the Primary Key as an incorrect selection can adversely impact the database architect and future normalization. For a Candidate Key to qualify as a Primary Key, it should be Non-NULL and unique in any domain.

A metalloid is an element with properties between metals and non metals or the mix of both.

The six metalloids are arsenic, silicon, germanium, boron, antimony and tellurium.

Hence, silicon is the only metalloid in the given list.