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Assignment DB 3

This document discusses relational algebra expressions for queries on sample employee, bank, and university databases. It asks the reader to provide expressions for queries involving finding employees by city and salary, branches by city, loans over a certain amount, accounts over a balance, and determining the primary key for an advisor relation when a student can have multiple advisors.

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Assignment DB 3

This document discusses relational algebra expressions for queries on sample employee, bank, and university databases. It asks the reader to provide expressions for queries involving finding employees by city and salary, branches by city, loans over a certain amount, accounts over a balance, and determining the primary key for an advisor relation when a student can have multiple advisors.

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Assignment 3: Introduction to the Relational Model (Cont)

1. Consider the employee database of Figure 2.1. Give an expression in the


relationalalgebra to express each of the following queries:
employee (person name, street, city)
works (person name, company name, salary)
company (company name, city)
a. Find the name of each employee who lives in city “Miami”.
b. Find the name of each employee whose salary is greater than $100000.
c. Find the name of each employee who lives in “Miami” and whose salary is
greater than $100000.
d. Find the ID and name of each employee who does not work for “BigBank”.
e. Find the ID and name of each employee who earns at least as much as
every employee in the database.
2. Consider the bank database of Figure 2.3. Give an expression in the relational
algebra for each of the following queries:
branch(branch name, branch city, assets)
customer (ID, customer name, customer street, customer city)
loan (loan number, branch name, amount)
borrower (ID, loan number)
account (account number, branch name, balance)
depositor (ID, account number)
Figure 2.3 Bank database.
a. Find the name of each branch located in “Chicago”.
b. Find the ID of each borrower who has a loan in branch “Downtown”.
c. Find each loan number with a loan amount greater than $10000.
d. Find the ID of each depositor who has an account with a balance greater than $6000.
e. Find the ID of each depositor who has an account with a balance greater than $6000
at the “Uptown” branch.

3. Consider the advisor relation shown in the schema diagram in Figure 2.4, with s_id
as the primary key of advisor. Suppose a student can have more than one advisor.
Then, would s_id still be a primary key of the advisor relation? If not, what should
the primary key of advisor be?
Figure 2.4 Schema diagram for the university database

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