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Department of Computer Studies: Advance Database

This document provides instructions for Assignment 2 in an Advance Database course. It outlines: 1) The assignment must be submitted as a handwritten white paper with pictures of each page uploaded separately using a specific naming convention. 2) The last day of submission is September 22, 2020 by 12:00 PM. 3) The assignment questions ask students to analyze a database file structure and identify ways to improve it by reducing redundancies and enabling different listing and sorting capabilities.

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Department of Computer Studies: Advance Database

This document provides instructions for Assignment 2 in an Advance Database course. It outlines: 1) The assignment must be submitted as a handwritten white paper with pictures of each page uploaded separately using a specific naming convention. 2) The last day of submission is September 22, 2020 by 12:00 PM. 3) The assignment questions ask students to analyze a database file structure and identify ways to improve it by reducing redundancies and enabling different listing and sorting capabilities.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER STUDIES

CONCEPCION HOLY CROSS COLLEGE INC.


CONCEPCION TARLAC
__________________________________________________
Advance Database
Assignment No. 2

Student No. _______________ Date: ______________

Name: ___________________ Subject Code: _______

Instruction

General Instruction

 The assignment must be accomplished to a white coupon bond paper handwritten.


 Submission of assignment must be done on or before the submission date
 Take a Picture thru your Phone Camera or thru Scanner for every page.
 Rename each file taken into CourseCode-Lastname Firstname-Assno-pg(page number)
 Last day of Submission: September 22, 2020 12:00 PM

Uploading of files in LMS is 1 by 1 therefore if your assignment is more than 1 page you have to submit
them also per page.

1. How many records does the file contain? How many fields are there per record?

2. What problem would you encounter if you wanted to produce a listing by city? How

would you solve this problem by altering the file structure?

3. If you wanted to produce a listing of the file contents by last name, area code, city,

state, or zip code, how would you alter the file structure?

4. What data redundancies do you detect? How could those redundancies lead to

anomalies?

5. Identify and discuss the serious data redundancy problems exhibited by the file

structure shown in the figure.

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