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 database languages require programmers to write code that manually navigates data relationships, which demands precise knowledge of physical tables and index paths. In contrast, declarative languages like SQL let users specify what data they want without knowing the underlying structure.

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