Exercise 1 : Consider the following information about a university database:

Answer :


Exercise 2 : Notown Records has decided to store information about musicians who
perform on its albums (as well as other company data) in a database. The company
has wisely chosen to hire you as a database designer (at your usual consulting fee of
$2500/day).




Exercise 3 : Dene the following terms: relation schema, relational database schema,
domain, attribute, attribute domain, relation instance, relation cardinality,and relation
degree.

Answer :
A relation schema can be thought of as the basic information describing
a table or relation. This includes a set of column names, the data types associated
with each column, and the name associated with the entire table. For example, a
relation schema for the relation called Students could be expressed using the following
representation: