Technology Questions

TDM is a digital process that can be applied when the data rate capacity of the transmission  medium is greater than the data rate required by the sending and receiving devices.

.NET’s Base class library exists in order to encapsulate huge number of common functions and makes them easily accessible to the developer. .NET base class library provides the functionality like ADO.NET, XML, Threading, IO, Security, Diagnostics, Resources, Globalization, collections etc. It serves as the main point of interaction between developer and runtime.

To insert a NULL, move -1 to the null indicator

To insert a valid value, move 0 to the null indicator

Android Application Architecture has the following components:
* Services – like Network Operation
* Intent - To perform inter-communication between activities or services
* Resource Externalization - such as strings and graphics
* Notification signaling users - light, sound, icon, notification, dialog etc.
* Content Providers - They share data between applications

There are many algorithms that can be used to analyze the database to check the maintenance of all the data sets that are already present. The different types of cluster models include as follows:

- Connectivity models: these are the models that connect one cluster to another cluster. This includes the example of hierarchical clustering that is based on the distance connectivity of one model to another model. 

- Centroid models: these are the models that are used to find the clusters using the single mean vector. It includes the example of k-means algorithm.

- Distribution models: it includes the specification of the models that are statistically distributed for example multivariate normal distribution model.

- Density models: deals with the clusters that are densely connected with one another in the regions having the data space. 

- Group models: specifies the model that doesn’t provide the refined model for the output and just gives the grouping information

Bitmap indexes make use of bit arrays (bitmaps) to answer queries by performing bitwise logical operations.

Bitmap indexes are useful in the data warehousing applications.

Bitmap indexes have a significant space and performance advantage over other structures for such data.

Tables that have less number of insert or update operations can be good candidates.

The advantages of Bitmap indexes are:

   - They have a highly compressed structure, making them fast to read.

   - Their structure makes it possible for the system to combine multiple indexes together so that they can      access the underlying table faster.

The Disadvantage of Bitmap indexes is:

  - The overhead on maintaining them is enormous. 

- %FOUND

 This is a Boolean variable which evaluates to TRUE if the last row is successfully fetched.

- %NOTFOUND

 This is a Boolean variable which evaluates to TRUE if the last row is not successfully fetched. This means there are no more rows to fetch.

- %ROWCOUNT

 Returns the number of rows fetched by the cursor.

- %ISOPEN

If the cursor is open, it evaluates to TRUE else FALSE.