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Database System With Administration: Technical Assessment

This document outlines the requirements for a database administration technical assessment. It includes 4 parts testing PL/SQL control structures, explicit cursors, record structures, and exception handling. Candidates are asked to write PL/SQL code blocks to retrieve and display data from Oracle database tables, using techniques like CASE statements, loops, cursors, records, and exception handling. Screenshots of the code and outputs are required to be included.

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Database System With Administration: Technical Assessment

This document outlines the requirements for a database administration technical assessment. It includes 4 parts testing PL/SQL control structures, explicit cursors, record structures, and exception handling. Candidates are asked to write PL/SQL code blocks to retrieve and display data from Oracle database tables, using techniques like CASE statements, loops, cursors, records, and exception handling. Screenshots of the code and outputs are required to be included.

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Database System with Administration

TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT

M1, M2, M3

Name:
Section:

Professor:

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REQUIREMENTS:
• Screen shots of your code and output from Oracle Cloud - SQL Developer Web.
• Paste your screen shots after each question.
• Your screen shots must show your worskspace name.
• Codes and output must be readable from the screen shots.
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PART-1. Control Structures. (10pts)

1.) Write a PL/SQL block:

To find the number of airports from the countries table for a supplied country_name. Based on this number,
display a customized message as follows:

Use a CASE statement to process your comparisons. (5 marks)

2.) Using any of the PL/SQL looping statement, write a PL/SQL block to display the country_id and
country_name values from the WF_COUNTRIES table for country_id whose values range from 51 through
55. Test your variable to see when it reaches 55. EXIT the loop after you have displayed the 5 countries. (5
marks)

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PART-2. Explicit Cursor and Record Structure (10 Points)

Create a PL/SQL block that fetches and displays the six employees with the highest salary. For each of
these employees, display the first name, last name, job id, and salary. Order your output so that the
employee with the highest salary is displayed first. Use %ROWTYPE and the explicit cursor attribute
%ROWCOUNT.

PART-3. Explicit Cursor and User Defined Structure (15 Points)

Write a PL/SQL block to read through rows in the countries table for all countries in region 5 (South America
region). Country name must be entered by the user. For each selected country, display the country_name,
national_holiday_date, and national_holiday_name. Use a record structure (user defined) to hold all the
columns selected from the countries table.

PART-4. Exception Handling. (15 Points)

A. Add an exception handler to the following code to trap the following predefined Oracle Server errors:
NO_DATA_FOUND, TOO_MANY_ROWS, and DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX. (5 pts)

DECLARE
v_language_id languages.language_id%TYPE;
v_language_name languages.language_name%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT language_id, language_name INTO v_language_id, v_language_name FROM languages
WHERE LOWER(language_name) LIKE '<substring%>'; -- for example 'ab%'

INSERT INTO languages(language_id, language_name) VALUES(80, null);


END;

Note: Test your block twice using each of the following language substrings: ba, ce. There are several
language_names beginning with “Ba,” but none beginning with “Ce”.

B. Now test your block a third time using substring: al. There is exactly one language_name beginning with
“Al”. Note that language_id 80 (Arabic) already exists. Explain the output. (5 pts)

C. Now (keeping the substring as “al”), add a non_predefined exception handler to trap then encountered
oracle exception code. Rerun the code and explain the result. (5 pts)

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