Q. A Transaction Manager is which of the following ?

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Q. A B+ tree index is to be built on the name attribute of the relation STUDENT. Assume that all students names are of length 8 bytes, disk block are of size 512 bytes and index pointers are of size 4 bytes. Given this scenario what would be the best choice of the degree (i.e. the number of pointers per node) of the B+ tree ?

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Q. What is Granularity ?

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Q. Which level of Abstraction describes what data are stored in the Database ?

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Q. The problem that occurs when one transaction updates a database item and then the transaction fails for some reason is …………….

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Q. Consider a schema R(A, B, C, D) and functional dependencies A->B and C->D. Then the decomposition R1(A, B) and R2(C, D) is

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Q. A hash table has space for 75 records, then the probability of collision before the table is 6% full.

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Q. Which command classes text file, which has been created using “SET ALTERNATIVE” < FILE NAME > “Command” ?

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Q. Which of the following statements is true, when structure of database file with 20 records is modified?

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Q. The SQL Expression

Select distinct T. branch name from branch T, branch S where T. assets > S. assets and S. branch-city = DELHI,

finds the name of

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Q. Which of the following is the recovery management technique in DDBMS ?

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Q. Which of the following is the process by which a user’s privileges ascertained ?

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Q. The basic variants of time-stampbased method of concurrency control are

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Q. A transaction can include following basic database access operations :

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Q. Consider a hash table of size m = 10000 and the hash function h(k) = ∟m(kA mod 1)'┘ for A = (√5–1)/2. The location to the key k = 123456 is

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Q. The dependency preservation decomposition is a property to decompose database schema D, in which each functional dependency X->Y specified in F,

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Q. Which of the following is an optimistic concurrency control method?

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Q. Which of the following is the process by which a user’s access to physical data in the application is limited, based on his privileges?

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Q. Linear probing suffers from a problem known as

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Q. An entity instance is a single occurrence of an …………..

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