Q. Consider a database table T containing two columns X and Y each of type integer. After the creation of the table, one record (X=1, Y=1) is inserted in the table. Let MX and My denote the respective maximum values of X and Y among all records in the table at any point in time. Using MX and MY, new records are inserted in the table 128 times with X and Y values being MX+1, 2*MY+1 respectively. It may be noted that each time after the insertion, values of MX and MY change. What will be the output of the following SQL query after the steps mentioned above are carried out?
SELECT Y FROM T WHERE X=7;

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Q. Database table by name Loan_Records is given below.
Borrower Bank_Manager Loan_Amount
Ramesh Sunderajan 10000.00
Suresh Ramgopal 5000.00
Mahesh Sunderajan 7000.00
What is the output of the following SQL query?

SELECT Count(*)
FROM ( (SELECT Borrower, Bank_Manager
FROM Loan_Records) AS S
NATURAL JOIN (SELECT Bank_Manager,
Loan_Amount
FROM Loan_Records) AS T );

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Q. A relational schema for a train reservation database is given below. Passenger (pid, pname, age) Reservation (pid, class, tid)

Table: Passenger
pid pname age
-----------------
0 Sachin 65
1 Rahul 66
2 Sourav 67
3 Anil 69

Table : Reservation
pid class tid
---------------
0 AC 8200
1 AC 8201
2 SC 8201
5 AC 8203
1 SC 8204
3 AC 8202
What pids are returned by the following SQL query for the above instance of the tables?
SELECT pid
FROM Reservation ,
WHERE class ‘AC’ AND
EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM Passenger
WHERE age > 65 AND
Passenger. pid = Reservation.pid)

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Q. Consider the following relational schema:

Suppliers(sid:integer, sname:string, city:string, street:string)
Parts(pid:integer, pname:string, color:string)
Catalog(sid:integer, pid:integer, cost:real)

Consider the following relational query on the above database:

SELECT S.sname
FROM Suppliers S
WHERE S.sid NOT IN (SELECT C.sid
FROM Catalog C
WHERE C.pid NOT IN (SELECT P.pid
FROM Parts P
WHERE P.color<> 'blue'))

Assume that relations corresponding to the above schema are not empty. Which one of the following is the correct interpretation of the above query?

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Q. Consider the table employee(empId, name, department, salary) and the two queries Q1 ,Q2 below. Assuming that department 5 has more than one employee, and we want to find the employees who get higher salary than anyone in the department 5, which one of the statements is TRUE for any arbitrary employee table?
Q1 : Select e.empId
From employee e
Where not exists
(Select * From employee s where s.department = “5” and
s.salary >=e.salary)
Q2 : Select e.empId
From employee e
Where e.salary > Any
(Select distinct salary From employee s Where s.department = “5”)

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Q. Given the following statements:

S1: A foreign key declaration can always
be replaced by an equivalent check
assertion in SQL.
S2: Given the table R(a,b,c) where a and
b together form the primary key, the
following is a valid table definition.
CREATE TABLE S (
a INTEGER,
d INTEGER,
e INTEGER,
PRIMARY KEY (d),
FOREIGN KEY (a) references R)
Which one of the following statements is CORRECT?

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Q. Given the following schema:

employees(emp-id, first-name, last-name, hire-date, dept-id, salary)
departments(dept-id, dept-name, manager-id, location-id)

You want to display the last names and hire dates of all latest hires in their respective departments in the location ID 1700. You issue the following query:

SQL> SELECT last-name, hire-date
FROM employees
WHERE (dept-id, hire-date) IN
(SELECT dept-id, MAX(hire-date)
FROM employees JOIN departments USING(dept-id)
WHERE location-id = 1700
GROUP BY dept-id);

What is the outcome?

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Q. SQL allows tuples in relations, and correspondingly defines the multiplicity of tuples in the result of joins. Which one of the following queries always gives the same answer as the nested query shown below:

select * from R where a in (select S.a from S)

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Q. Consider the following relational schema:

employee(empId, empName, empDept)
customer(custId, custName, salesRepId, rating)

salesRepId is a foreign key referring to empId of the employee relation. Assume that each employee makes a sale to at least one customer. What does the following query return?

SELECT empName
FROM employee E
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT custId
FROM customer C
WHERE C.salesRepId = E.empId
AND C.rating <> ’GOOD’);

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Q. The statement that is executed automatically by the system as a side effect of the modification of the database is

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Q. Which of the following command is used to delete a table in SQL?

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Q. Consider the relation account (customer, balance) where customer is a primary key and there are no null values. We would like to rank customers according to decreasing balance. The customer with the largest balance gets rank 1. ties are not broke but ranks are skipped: if exactly two customers have the largest balance they each get rank 1 and rank 2 is not assigned
Query1:
select A.customer, count(B.customer)
from account A, account B
where A.balance <=B.balance
group by A.customer

Query2:
select A.customer, 1+count(B.customer)
from account A, account B
where A.balance < B.balance
group by A.customer

Consider these statements about Query1 and Query2.

1. Query1 will produce the same row set as Query2 for
some but not all databases.
2. Both Query1 and Query2 are correct implementation
of the specification
3. Query1 is a correct implementation of the specification
but Query2 is not
4. Neither Query1 nor Query2 is a correct implementation
of the specification
5. Assigning rank with a pure relational query takes
less time than scanning in decreasing balance order
assigning ranks using ODBC.

Which two of the above statements are correct?

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Q. Consider the relation "enrolled(student, course)" in which (student, course) is the primary key, and the relation "paid(student, amount)" where student is the primary key. Assume no null values and no foreign keys or integrity constraints. Given the following four queries:

Query1: select student from enrolled where
student in (select student from paid)
Query2: select student from paid where
student in (select student from enrolled)
Query3: select E.student from enrolled E, paid P
where E.student = P.student
Query4: select student from paid where exists
(select * from enrolled where enrolled.student
= paid.student)

Which one of the following statements is correct?

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Q. The following table has two attributes A and C where A is the primary key and C is the foreign key referencing A with on-delete cascade.

A C
-----
2 4
3 4
4 3
5 2
7 2
9 5
6 4

The set of all tuples that must be additionally deleted to preserve referential integrity when the tuple (2,4) is deleted is:

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Q. The relation book (title, price) contains the titles and prices of different books. Assuming that no two books have the same price, what does the following SQL query list?

select title
from book as B
where (select count(*)
from book as T
where T.price > B.price) < 5

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Q. Consider the following relation schema pertaining to a students database:

Student (rollno, name, address)
Enroll (rollno, courseno, coursename)

where the primary keys are rollno,courseno. The number of tuples in the Student and Enroll tables are 120 and 8 respectively. What are the maximum and minimum number of tuples that can be present in (Student * Enroll), where '*' denotes natural join ?

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Q. The employee information in a company is stored in the relation
Employee (name, sex, salary, deptName)
(name is primary key )
Consider the following SQL query

select deptName
from Employee
where sex = 'M'
group by deptName
having avg (salary) > (select avg (salary) from Employee)

It returns the names of the department in which

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Q. Consider the set of relations shown below and the SQL query that follows.

Students: (Roll_number, Name, Date_of_birth)
Courses: (Course number, Course_name, Instructor)
Grades: (Roll_number, Course_number, Grade)

select distinct Name
from Students, Courses, Grades
where Students. Roll_number = Grades.Roll_number
and Courses.Instructor = Korth
and Courses.Course_number = Grades.Course_number
and Grades.grade = A

Which of the following sets is computed by the above query?

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Q. Given relations r(w, x) and s(y, z), the result of

SELECT DISTINCT w, x
FROM r, s

is guaranteed to be same as r, provided

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Q. In SQL, relations can contain null values, and comparisons with null values are treated as unknown. Suppose all comparisons with a null value are treated as false. Which of the following pairs is not equivalent?

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