Multiple choice technology databases

What was a problem with navigational data access languages?

  1. The user had to have knowledge of the table and index structures

  2. Navigational data access was far slower than declarative access.

  3. Navigational access languages required the coder to embed their queries inside a procedural language shell.

  4. Navigational languages were far slower then SQL
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Explanation

Navigational data access languages required developers to write code that manually traversed relationships and structures, meaning they had to possess intimate knowledge of the physical tables and index designs.

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