Sentinel value in place of null, or null with a business meaning (physical model)
https://knobit.org/id/knobit/K-619
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| Context functions | Result evaluation |
|---|---|
| Knobit creation methods | AI generated, human edited |
| Knobit types | Skill |
| LCG purposes | Assessing the learner's knowledge or skill state |
| LCG purposes | Selecting an assessment task or learning activity |
| action verb | Recognises en |
| assessment criterion | Flags the deficient case and passes the acceptable one. Deficient: `account_opening_date = '1900-01-01'` when unknown; `branch_id = -1`; open-ended validity as `NULL` in one table and `9999-12-31` in another Acceptable: `NULL` for unknown. Where a value is required, one project-wide convention recorded in config (open-ended `valid_to`), and a dimension's unknown member as a labelled row that every query sees, not a magic number in a measure en |
| assessment method | skill-tests task: Loan application physical model on Snowflake (physical design anomaly skills) en |
| conforms to profile | https://oppekava.edu.ee/a/Knobitite_kirjeldamise_ja_seostamise_reeglid#LCG-KNOBIT-0.1 |
| dcterms:identifier | K-619 |
| dcterms:license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| dcterms:source | Review checklist 04-physical, row 19; Karwin, Fear of the Unknown; Codd 1979 §2.3 en |
| expected result | A finding that names the defective physical model element and the defect en |
| owl:sameAs | https://bitbucket.org/reffa/ontology/id/knobit/data-modelling/06-physical/19 |
| rdfs:label | Sentinel value in place of null, or null with a business meaning (physical model) en |
| schema:creativeWorkStatus | superseded |
| schema:isPartOf | Data modelling (DAMA-DMBOK2) |
| schema:supersededBy | Recognises a sentinel value standing in for null |
| schema:supersededBy | Recognises a null with a business meaning |
| skos:definition | A real-looking value standing for "unknown" or "not applicable", or a null that means something specific and different in different tables. Sentinels pass every constraint and end up in totals and averages. A specific form of logical row 6 at the physical level. en |
| skos:prefLabel | Sentinel value in place of null, or null with a business meaning (physical model) en |
| target object | physical model en |