Multiple choice technology databases

ALL OCCURENCES OF A SEGMENT TYPE UNDER A PARENT IS CALLED AS

  1. CHILD

  2. DEPENDENT

  3. TWIN

  4. SIBLINGS
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In IMS database terminology, when a parent segment has multiple occurrences of the same child segment type, those child segments are called 'twins'. For example, if an ORDER segment has multiple LINE-ITEM segments of type 'LINE-ITEM', those LINE-ITEMs are twins of each other under that ORDER.

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