This document contains 27 questions related to database management systems. The questions cover topics such as defining key database terms, the roles of database administrators and designers, database architectures, entity-relationship modeling, SQL commands, and writing SQL queries to retrieve information from sample relational databases.
This document contains 27 questions related to database management systems. The questions cover topics such as defining key database terms, the roles of database administrators and designers, database architectures, entity-relationship modeling, SQL commands, and writing SQL queries to retrieve information from sample relational databases.
This document contains 27 questions related to database management systems. The questions cover topics such as defining key database terms, the roles of database administrators and designers, database architectures, entity-relationship modeling, SQL commands, and writing SQL queries to retrieve information from sample relational databases.
A: Data B: Database C: DBMS D: Database System E: Database Catalog (2): DBA and Database Design.Explain? (3): Define Persistance? (4): Define Metadata? (5): Define Transaction Processing Application? (6): Three main type of action involves database. Explain? (7): Define Database Application? (8): Define Database Application in Web Application? (9): Define some datatypes of MySQL? (10): What is the difference between 2 tier and 3 tier Architecture? (11): What is the difference between Logical data independence and Physical data independence? (12): Describe the three schema Architecture? (13): Discuss some types of DBA utilities and tools and their functions? (14): Discuss the conventions for displaying a ER Schema as on ER diagram? (15): Define the following terms? (a): Entity (b): Attribute (c): Attribute value (d): Composite Attribute (e): Relationship Instance (f): Multivalued Attribute (g): Derived Attribute (h): Complex Attribute (i): Key Attribute (j) : Value set (16) :Discuss the naming conventions used for ER Schema Diagram? (17): List four applications must likely used a database system to store persistent data? (18): List four significant difference between a file processing system and a DBMS? (19): List five responsibilities of a DBMS? (20): What are the main function of DBA? (21): Define different types of command in SQL?
(22): Design a generalization specification hierarchy for a motor-
vehicle sales company . The company sells motorcycle busses trucks and cars? (23): Construct an ER diagram for a hospital with a set of patients and a set of medical doctors.Associate with each patient a log of various test and enomination? (24): Construct on ER diagram for a car insurance company where Customer have 1 or more car each. Each car has associated with it zero to any number of recorded accidents? (25): Define the concept of Aggregation? Give the example when this concept is used?
(26): Let R {A,B,C} or let R1 and R2 both be relations on schema R.
Give an expression in SQL that is equivalent to each of the following queries? (27): Consider the following relational schema employee relation{emp_no , emp_name , office , age} and another relation is books {ISDN , title , authors , publisher} and loan relation {emp_no , ISDN , date}. Write the following queries in SQL: (a): Print the name of employee who had borrowed any book published by Mc Graw hill? (b): Print the name of employee who has borrowed all books published by Mc Graw hill? (c): Print the name of employee who have borrowed more than five books of that publisher?