Multiple choice

Which of the following schemas in a distributed database specifies that the fragments are really the logical portions of the global relation which are physically dispersed at different sites of the network, and defines at which site a fragment is allocated?

  1. Global schema

  2. Fragmentation schema

  3. Allocation schema

  4. Local mapping schema

  5. Data dictionary

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Explanation

This schema in a distributed database specifies that the fragments are really the logical portions of the global relation, which are physically dispersed at different sites of the network, and defines at which site a fragment is allocated.