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Database Management Systems Jan 2014

This document contains questions for a Database Management Systems examination. It is divided into two parts, with Part A focusing on conceptual database design topics and Part B focusing on the Structured Query Language (SQL). Some of the questions ask students to explain database concepts like normalization, relationships, and transactions. Others provide tables and ask students to write SQL queries to retrieve or modify data. The document tests a range of foundational database knowledge.

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Database Management Systems Jan 2014

This document contains questions for a Database Management Systems examination. It is divided into two parts, with Part A focusing on conceptual database design topics and Part B focusing on the Structured Query Language (SQL). Some of the questions ask students to explain database concepts like normalization, relationships, and transactions. Others provide tables and ask students to write SQL queries to retrieve or modify data. The document tests a range of foundational database knowledge.

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Define Data model. Briefly explain Object based and Record based data models. (08 Marks)
What are the functions of Database administrator (DBA). (04 Marks)
Define the following terms, with an example for each :
i) Mapping cardinalities ii) Strong entity iii) Degree of a relation iv) Ternary
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Explain Binary relational algebra operations, with example.
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CATALOG (book-id, title, au-id, p-id, Catg-id)
AUTHOR (au-id, name, city, country)
PUBLISHER (p-id, name, city, country)
CATEGORY ( cat-id. descript ion)
MEMBER (m-id, name, address, city, state)
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Explain INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE statements in SQL with example. (06 Marks)
What is a VIEW? What are the advantages of view? (04 Marks)
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