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The document is a lab assignment report for a database systems course. It contains 7 questions asking to write relational algebra queries to retrieve information from databases relating to movies, actors, directors, and roles. The queries select and filter data from multiple tables to return the requested information, such as the names of female actors, actors who have played doctors, director names for highly rated movies, and more.

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DBS Lab 01

The document is a lab assignment report for a database systems course. It contains 7 questions asking to write relational algebra queries to retrieve information from databases relating to movies, actors, directors, and roles. The queries select and filter data from multiple tables to return the requested information, such as the names of female actors, actors who have played doctors, director names for highly rated movies, and more.

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COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI)

Database Management System


Lab Assignment: 01

“Relational Algebra Queries”

Report by

Rimsha Shakoor FA19-BSE-007

Class BSSE-4A
Supervisor Rashid Mehmood Rafiq
CSC371: Database Systems – SPRING 2021
LAB Assignment – 1
Querying Relational Database using Relational Algebra

1. List the first and last names of all the female actors. [2]
Query: πfirst_name,last_name (σgender='F' ( actors ))

2. List the first and last names of all the actors who have played the role of
Doctor. [2]
Query: 1. πactors.first_name,actors.last_name (σroles.role='Doctor' (actors ⨯ roles))
2. πfirst_name,last_name ( σrole='Doctor' ( actors ⨝ roles ) )

3. List the first and last names of all the directors who are also actors. [2]
Query:
πdirectors.first_name,directors.last_name(σactors.first_name=directors.first_name∧actors
.last_name=directors.last_name ( actors ⨯ directors ))

4. List movie names along with their director names of all the movies with
a rank greater than 8.5 [2]
Query: πname,first_name,last_name (σrank>8.5 ( movies ⨯ directors ) )

5. List titles of all the movies that are released after 2000, have a rank
greater than 8, and that belong to Action genre. [2]
Query: πname (σrank>8 ∧ year>2000 ∧ genre='Action' ( movies ⨯ movies_genres ) )
6. List the first and last names of all the actors who played a role in the
movie Reservoir Dogs, and the roles they played in it. [2]
Query: πfirst_name,last_name,roles.role ( σmovies.name='Reservoir Dogs' ∧
roles.movie_id = movies.id (movies x (σ id = actor_id (actors x roles))))

7. List the first and last names of all the actors who acted in the movies of
director Quentin Tarantino but not in the movies of director Stanley
Kubrick. [3]
Query: A = movies_directors ⨝ movies_directors.director_id=directors.id directors
B = roles ⨝ actors.id=roles.actor_id actors

πactors.first_name,actors.last_name(σ(directors.first_name='Quentin'∧directors.last_nam
e='Tarantino') ∧ (directors.first_name!='Stanley' ∧ directors.last_name!='Kubrick') (A ⨝
movies_directors.movie_id = roles.movie_id B))

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