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Question Bank
UNIT I 1. Name the major component of database management system and explain the functions of each. 2. Explain the advantage and disadvantages of database management system over file processing system. 3. Define by the giving a suitable example for each of the following : 1. Weak entity 2. Id-dependent entity. 3. HAS- A- relationship 4. IS-A- relationship 4. Explain in brief the limitation of file processing system and how database technology Overcomes the limitations. 6. Explain the purpose of :1. Foreign key 2. Normalization 3. Reports 4. Prototype. 1. Explain the similarities and differences between E_R model & semantic object model.

Unit-ii
2. What is functional dependency & multi valued dependency .explain with e.g. , What difficulties these dependencies create in a relation. 3. What it is necessary to decompose a relation? define the process of normalization & explain the 2nd normal form with an e,g . 4. Domain key normal form is said to be free from all normalization . Explain DKNF with an example. 5. What do you mean by referential integrity constraints, explain with e.g. 6. Define Normalization ? Why is it necessary to decompose the relation into several relation? With an e.g. explain how anomalies are removed by decomposition. Unit-III 1. Write the following queries in SQL by considering following schema Product(maker,model,type) Pc(model,speed,ram,hd,screen,price) Laptop(model,speed,ram,hd,screen,price) Printer(model,color,ype,price) Find the manufacturer of printer Find the model number, memory size &Screen size for laptop costing more than 35000/ Find those manufacture that sell laptop but not PC. Find the printer with the highest price Find the average price of PC mae by a manufacture Z

 Find for each different speed the average price of PC. 2. What are the fundamental operation in relational algebra , explain any three with suitable example of each. 3. Explain five major function of database Application. 4. What is horizontal and vertical security which type of securities is supported by user name and password and by application code? 5. What do you mean by view and view instance? UNIT-IV 1. Explain why materialized view is needed. Give a suitable examble. 2. Why is SQL described as a data sub language ? Explain. 3. Consider a relation assuming suitable data STUDENT (SID S_name, S_age, S_deptt) DEPTT (D_name, S_deptt) Write SQL for i) Show name of all students. ii)Show S_ID of all students having D_ name _ computer. iii) Give the list of students having age> 20

4. Explain the difference between concurrent transaction and simultaneous transaction , how many CPUs are required for simultaneous transaction? 5. what are DDL and DML statements ? 6. For the following relations write SQL queries for the problems listed below. SALESPERSON (Name, Age, Percent Of Quota, Salary ) ORDER (Number, CustName City, Industry Type) CUSTOMER(Name ,City ,Industry type) i) Show the salaries of all salespeople. ii)Show the names of all salespeople who earn more than Rs. 40,000and less. Than Rs.90.000. iii)Show the names of all salespeople with percent of Quota greater than 40 and less than 50 Use the BETWEEN keyword . iv)Compute the average percent of quota for salespeople 7. What is lock granularity? 8. Differentiate between view and view instance giving examples. How a vies is different from a materialization ? 9. Explain in brief the major function of a database application. 10. Explain the fundamental relational algebra operators. 11. consider the following relations ;SALESPERSON (Name,salry) Order (Number, cust_Name salesperson NameAmount) CUSTOMER (Name,city, Industrytype ) show relational algebra expressions for i)The names of all salespeople. ii)The names of all salespeople having an ORDER row. iii)The salaries of salespeople having an order with Bright Construction.

iv)The city of all CUSTOMERS having an order with salesperson Mr. sharm.

Unit -V
1. Explain the important tasks of DBA. 2. Explain the three levels of transaction isolation supported by Oracle. 3. what are the three primary factors that influence SQL server locking behavior ? 4. Give the difference between :i) Explicit and Implicit lock. ii) Exclusive and Shared lock. 5. Explain the purpose of BEFORE, AFTER and INSTEAD OF triggers. 6. explain the important tasks of a DBA. 7. what is an atomic transaction ? Why atomicity is important ? 8. what are the three primary factors that influence SQL server locking behavior ? 9. Explain the important tasks of a DBA. 10. What is an atomic transaction ? Why atomicity is important ? What are concurrent transactions ? 11. Explain the three levels of transaction isolation supported by Oracle. 12 what is DBMS security ? Explain giving the model.

Unit VI
1 .why is OLE DB important ? Explain the goals of OLE DB . 2. what is CSS? Explain how CSS is used in XML document. 3. Explain the relationship of ODBC, OLE DB AND ADO. 4.For what type of workload does MySQL excel? List the major limitations of MySQL. 5. What is CSS ? Explain how CSS is used in XML document. 6. Explain the relationship of ODBC , OLE DB and ADO. 7. Why is OLE DB important ? Explain the goals of OLE DB. 8. What are the four JDBC driver types ? 9. Explain the relationship of ODBC , OLE DB and ADO. 10. What is CSS ? Explain how CSS is used in XML document.