[Nov-13]

[EURCS-504/EURIT-504]
B.Tech. Degree Examination
CSE & IT
V SEMESTER
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
(Effective from the admitted batch 2007–08)
Time: 3 Hours Max.Marks: 60
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Instructions: Each Unit carries 12 marks.
Answer all units choosing one question from each unit.
All parts of the unit must be answered in one place only.
Figures in the right hand margin indicate marks allotted.
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UNIT-I
1. Discuss the structure of the DBMS 12
OR
2. What is an ER diagram end discuss several choices to be made
when generating an ER diagram 12
UNIT-II
3. a) What do you understand by logical database design? Explain 8
b) What is a view? What is update restriction on a view? 4
OR
4. Explain the following unary operations in Relational Algebra
a) Selection b) Projection c) Rename 12
UNIT-III
5. Give one example of SQL Query for the following keywords
a) ROLLBACK b) CONTINUE c) EXISTS d) ANY
e) GROUP BY … HAVING f) LIKE 12
 OR
6. a) Explain how performance and reliability can be improved
through RAID 2
b) Explain how the hash based indexing can be performed 10
UNIT-IV
7. Explain how do you compute the following with example
a) Dependency closure F + of a set F of FDs
P P 6
b) Attribute closure X + of a set of attributes X w.r.t a set of FDs F
P P

6
OR
8. Take a un-normalized relation and apply the rules of 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd
P P P P P P

normal forms show the transformations at each stage 12

UNIT-V
9. Why concurrency control is needed in the databases? Explain with
examples 12
OR
10. a) Explain ARIES recovery algorithm 6
b) Explain about media recovery 6

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