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END OF TERM TWO EXAM
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS
NO PHONES ALLOWED
QUESTION ONE
The academic world is an interesting example of international cooperation and exchange. This
problem is concerned with modeling of a database that contains information on researchers,
academic institutions, and collaborations among researchers. A researcher can either be
employed as a professor or a lab assistant. There are three kinds of professors: Assistant,
associate, and full professors. The following should be stored: [ 20 Marks]
For each researcher, his/her name, year of birth, and current position (if any).
For each institution, its name, country, and inauguration year.
For each institution, the names of its schools (e.g. School of Law, School of Business,
School of Computer Science,). A school belongs to exactly one institution.
An employment history, including information on all employments (start and end date,
position, and what school).
Information about co-authorships, i.e., which researchers have co-authored a research
paper. The titles of common research papers should also be stored.
For each researcher, information on his/her highest degree (BSc, MSc or PhD), including
who was the main supervisor, and at what school.
For each professor, information on what research projects (title, start date, and end date)
he/she is involved in, and the total amount of grant money for which he/she was the main
applicant.
a. Draw an E/R diagram for the data set described above. Make sure to indicate all
cardinality constraints specified above. The E/R diagram should not contain redundant
entity sets, relationships, or attributes. Also, use relationships whenever appropriate. If
you need to make any assumptions, include them in your answer. [20 Marks]
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QUESTION TWO
a. What does ACID stand for? [ 10 marks]
b. What are the two basic database access operations in a transaction? [2 marks]
c. What is the purpose of system log used in a transaction processing system? [2 marks]
d. Name two transaction processing systems you may have used in your daily life? [2
marks]
e. What is the purpose of concurrency control in a transaction processing system? [4 marks]
QUESTION THREE
a) Write a SQL statement to create a database named “Mystore”. [ 5 marks]
b) Write a SQL statement to create a table named products with the following structure and
constraints: [5 marks]
Field Name Type Key
product ID INT Primary Key
name VARCHAR (255)
price$ INT
manufacturer INT Foreign Key
*The foreign key should reference to a column named manufacturer ID from a table named
manufacturer
c) Write a SQL statement to insert a row into the table created above. Use the following values:
product ID: 1, name: PS2, price: 250, manufacturer: Sony [15 marks]
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QUESTION FOUR
You have a table with the following values: [ 20 Marks]
product ID name Price K manufacturer
1 XBOX-360 300 Microsoft
2 PS2 250 Sony
3 Nexus5X 400 Google
4 Ipad-mini 600 Apple
5 IPhone-5 1000 Apple
6 MacBookPRO 1200 Apple
7 Nexus6P 950 Google
Write SQL statements to do the following:
a. Show all records from the table [ 2 marks]
b. Show the name and price of all the products [3 marks]
c. Show the name and price of the products manufactured by Apple [5 marks]
d. Show all details of the products which have a price more than K900 [5 marks]
e. Show the names of the products which are manufactured by Apple and are expensive
than K900 [5 marks]
QUESTION FIVE
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a. Discuss data dictionary and how it is used in database environment. [ 5 marks]
b. In order to save costs, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) hosts both the website and
the database of a company on the same web server. Discuss the disadvantage of this
decision from a security point of view. [5 marks]
c. Describe the key characteristics of a data warehouse and how it differs in content,
structure and function from an online transaction processing (OLTP) database. You
should support your discussion with suitable diagrams and examples. [10 Marks]
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