Q. Based on the cardinality ratio and participation______________associated with a relationship type, choose either the Foreign Key Design, the Cross Referencing Design or Mutual Referencing Design.

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Q. Data Integrity control uses _______________

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Q. Consider the following schemas
Branch = (Branch-name, Assets, Branch-city)
Customer = (Customer-name, Bank name, Customer-city)
Borrow = (Branch~name, loannumber, customer account-number)
Deposit = (Branch-name, Accountnumber,
Customer-name, Balance)
Using relational Algebra, the Query that finds customers who have balance more than 10,000 is_______

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Q. Find the false statement :

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Q. Consider the table:

Student (stuid, name, course, marks)
Which one of the following two queries is correct to find the highest marks student in course 5 ?

Q.1. Select S.stuid From student S Where not exists  (select * from student e where e.course = '5' and e.marks ≥s.marks)

Q.2. Select s.stuid From student S Where s.marks >any (select distinct marks from student S where s.course =5)

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Q. Armstrong (1974) proposed systematic approach to derive functional dependencies. Match the following w.r.t. functional dependencies:

a.Decomposition Rule (i)   If X →Y and Z →W then {X, Z} → {Y, W}

b. Union Rule (ii)  If X →Y an  {Y,W} → Z then {X, W} → Z

c. Composition Rule (iii) If X →Y and X →Z then X → {Y, Z}
 
d. Pseudo transitivity Rule (iv) If X →{Y,Z} and  {Y,W} → Z then X → Y and  X →Z

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Q. Match the following:
List - I                                         List - II

a. Secondary                          i.    Functional Dependency
Index

b. Nonprocedural                  ii.  B-Tree
Query
Language

c. Closure of                           iii. Relational Algebraic
set of                                                Operation
Attributes

d.  Natural                              iv. Domain Calculus
JOIN

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Q. The best normal form of relation scheme R(A. B, C, D) along with the set of functional dependencies F = {AB → C, AB → D, C → A, D → B} is

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Q. Identify the minimal key for relational scheme R(A, B, C, D, E) with functional dependencies F = {A → B, B → C, AC → D}

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Q. Division operation is ideally suited to handle queries of the type :

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Q. What kind of mechanism is to be taken into account for converting a weak entity set into strong entity set in entity-relationship diagram?

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Q. Which of the following is true?

I.  Implementation of self-join is possible in SQL with table alias.

II. Outer-join operation is basic operation in relational algebra.

III. Natural join and outer join operations are equivalent.

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Q. Which of the following is correct?

I. Two phase locking is an optimistic protocol.
II. Two phase locking is pessimistic protocol
III. Time stamping is an optimistic protocol.
IV. Time stamping is pessimistic protocol.

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Q. ________________rules used to limit the volume of log information that has to be handled and processed in the event of system failure involving the loss of volatile information.

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Q. Let R = ABCDE is a relational scheme with functional dependency set F = {A -> B, B ->C,AC -> D}. The attribute closures of A and E are

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Q. Consider the following statements:

I. Re-construction operation used in mixed fragmentation satisfies commutative rule.
II. Re-construction operation used in vertical fragmentation satisfies commutative rule
Which of the following is correct?

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Q. Which of the following is false?

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Q. An Assertion is a predicate expressing a condition we wish database to always satisfy. The correct syntax for Assertion is :

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Q. Which of the following concurrency protocol ensures both conflict serializability and freedom from deadlock ?

(a) 2-phase Locking
(b) Time stamp - ordering

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Q. Drop Table cannot be used to drop a Table referenced by ________________ constraint.

(a) Primary key (b) Sub key (c) Super key (d) Foreign key

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