SUBJECT NAME : DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

SUBJECT CODE : CS8492

YEAR/SEM : II Year / Fourth Semester

DEPARTMENT : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

AUTHOR : R. LAVANYA, M.E., (Ph.D)

DESGINATION : ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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 REGULATIONS - 2017

SYLLABUS

OBJECTIVES:
 To learn the fundamentals of data models and to represent a database system using ER diagrams.
 To study SQL and relational database design.
 To understand the internal storage structures using different file and indexing
techniques which will help in physical DB design.
 To understand the fundamental concepts of transaction processing- concurrency
control techniques and recovery procedures.
 To have an introductory knowledge about the Storage and Query processing
Techniques

UNIT I RELATIONAL DATABASES 10

Purpose of Database System – Views of data – Data Models – Database System Architecture – Introduction to
relational databases – Relational Model – Keys – Relational Algebra – SQL fundamentals – Advanced SQL
features – Embedded SQL– Dynamic SQL.

UNIT II DATABASE DESIGN 8

Entity-Relationship model – E-R Diagrams – Enhanced-ER Model – ER-to-Relational Mapping – Functional
Dependencies – Non-loss Decomposition – First, Second, Third Normal Forms, Dependency Preservation –
Boyce/Codd Normal Form – Multi-valued Dependencies and Fourth Normal Form – Join Dependencies and
Fifth Normal Form.

UNIT III TRANSACTIONS 9

Transaction Concepts – ACID Properties – Schedules – Serializability – Concurrency Control – Need for
Concurrency – Locking Protocols – Two Phase Locking – Deadlock – Transaction Recovery – Save Points –
Isolation Levels – SQL Facilities for Concurrency and Recovery.

UNIT IV IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES 9

RAID – File Organization – Organization of Records in Files – Indexing and Hashing –Ordered Indices – B+
tree Index Files – B tree Index Files – Static Hashing – Dynamic Hashing – Query Processing Overview –
Algorithms for SELECT and JOIN operations – Query optimization using Heuristics and Cost Estimation.

UNIT V ADVANCED TOPICS 9

Distributed Databases: Architecture, Data Storage, Transaction Processing – Object-based Databases: Object
Database Concepts, Object-Relational features, ODMG Object Model, ODL, OQL – XML Databases: XML
Hierarchical Model, DTD, XML Schema, XQuery – Information Retrieval: IR Concepts, Retrieval Models,
Queries in IR systems.

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RELATIONAL DATABASES

PART-A
1. What is the purpose of Database Management System? (NOV 2014)
 Real world entity
 Relation-based tables
 Isolation of data and application
 Less redundancy
 Consistency
 Query Language
 ACID Properties
 Multiuser and concurrent Access
 Multiple Views
 Security

2.What is Data Definition Language? Give example. (NOV 2016, APR 2018)
 Data Definition Language (DDL) – specifies constructs for schema definition, relation
definition, integrity constraints, views and schema modification.

 Data Definition Language (DDL) is a standard for commands that define the different
structures in a database. DDL statements create, modify, and remove database objects such
as tables, indexes, and users. Common DDL statements are CREATE, ALTER, and DROP.

3. Write the Characteristics that distinguish the Database approach with the File-based
Approach? (MAY 2015, Nov 2019)
Database Approach File-Based Approach

A database System contains not only the Data definition is a part of application
database itseld but also the descriptions of programs
data structure and constraints ( meta-data).
In the database approach, the data structure is The structure of the data files is defined
stored in the system catalog not in the in the application programs so if a user
programs. wants to change the structure of a file,
all the programs that access that file
might need to be changed as well.
A multiuser database system allows multiple Same data is managed more than once
user access to the database at the same time. this leads to redundancy and
They have concurrency control strategies and inconsistency.
integrity checks for several user access.

4.What are the disadvantages of file processing system? (NOV 2015)

 Data redundancy and inconsistency
 Difficulty in accessing data
 Data isolation
 Marinating Integrity
 Atomicity Problems 3
 Concurrent Access Anomalies
  Security Problems

5. Differentiate File Processing System with Database Management System. (NOV 2016)

1. A database management system coordinates both the physical and the logical access to the
data, whereas a file-processing system coordinates only the physical access.

2. A database management system reduces the amount of data duplication by ensuring that a
physical piece of data is available to all programs authorized to have access to it, whereas data
written by one program in a file-processing system may not be readable by another program.

3. A database management system is designed to allow flexible access to data (i.e., queries),
whereas a file-processing system is designed to allow predetermined access to data (i.e.,
compiled programs).

4. A database management system is designed to coordinate multiple users accessing the same
data at the same time. A file-processing system is usually designed to allow one or more
programs to access different data files at the same time. In a file-processing system, a file can
be accessed by two programs concurrently only if both programs have read-only access to the
file.

5. Redundancy is control in DBMS, but not in file system

6. Unauthorized access is restricted in DBMS but not in file system.

7. DBMS provide back up and recovery. When data is lost in file system then it not recover.

8. DBMS provide multiple user interfaces. Data is isolated in file system,

6. What is a weak entity? Give Example. (NOV 2016, APR 2018)

Weak entity set: entity set that do not have key attribute of their own are called weak entity sets
In a relational database, a weak entity is an entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its attributes
alone; therefore, it must use a foreign key in conjunction with its attributes to create a primary key.
Examples. The existence of rooms is entirely depended on the existence of a hotel.

7. Who is a DBA? What are the responsibilities of a DBA? April/May-2011 (OR)

Mention some responsibilities of a database Administrator? (NOV 2018)
A database administrator (short form DBA) is a person responsible for the design, implementation,
maintenance and repair of an organization's database. They are also known by the titles Database
Coordinator or Database Programmer, and is closely related to the Database Analyst, Database
Modeller, Programmer Analyst, and Systems Manager.
The role includes the development and design of database strategies, monitoring and improving
database performance and capacity, and planning for future expansion requirements. They may also
plan, co-ordinate and implement security measures to safeguard the database.

8. What is a data model? List the types of data model used. (April/May-2011 , May 2019)
A database model is the theoretical foundation of a database and fundamentally determines in
which manner data can be stored, organized, and manipulated in a database system. It thereby
defines the infrastructure offered by a particular database system. The most popular example of a
database model is the relational model. 4
Types of data model used
 -relationship
-relational model

9. Define Atomicity in transaction management. (APR 2013)

In database systems, atomicity (or atomicness; from Greek a-tomos, undividable) is one of the
ACID transaction properties. In an atomic transaction, a series of database operations either all
occur, or nothing occurs.
10. Give an example of one to one and one to many relationship? (APR 2013, NOV 2018)
One-to-One (1-1) relationship is defined as the relationship between two tables where both the tables
should be associated with each other based on only one matching row. This relationship can be
created using Primary key-Unique foreign key constraints.

With One-to-One Relationship in SQL Server, for example, a person can have only one passport.

The One-to-Many relationship is defined as a relationship between two tables where a row from one
table can have multiple matching rows in another table. This relationship can be created
using Primary key-Foreign key relationship.

In the One-to-Many Relationship in SQL Server, for example, a book can have multiple authors.

11. What do you meant by simple and composite attribute? (DEC 2013)
Simple attributes are atomic values, which cannot be divided further. For example, a student's
phone number is an atomic value of 10 digits.
A composite attribute consists of a group of values from more than one domain. For example, the
Address attribute consists of several domains such as house number, street number, city, country,
etc.
12. Define query? (DEC 2013)
A query is a statement requesting the retrieval of information. The portion of DML
that involves information retrieval is called a query language.

13. Define database management system? List various applications of DBMS? (MAY 2019)
Database management system (DBMS) is a collection of interrelated data and a set of
programs to access those data.

a) Banking
b) Airlines
c) Universities
d) Credit card transactions
e) Tele communication
f) Finance g) Sales
h) Manufacturing
i) Human resources

14.Differentiate between static and Dynamic SQL? (NOV 2016 , NOV 2015, NOV 2014) (or)
What is Static SQL how it is different from Dynamic SQL? (NOV 2017) (or)
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Describe about the static SQL and Dynamic SQL in detail? (Apr 2019)
 Static ( Embedded ) SQL Dynamic (Interactive) SQL
In static SQL how databases will be In dynamic SQL, how database will
accessed is predetermined in the be accessed is determined at run
embedded SQL statement. time
It is more swift and efficient. It is less It is less swift and efficient. It is more
flexible. flexible.
SQL statements are compiled at SQL statements are compiled at run
compile time time

Parsing, validation,optimization and Parsing, validation,optimization and

generation of application plan are generation of application plan are
done at compile time. done at run time.
It is generally used for situations It is generally used for situations
where data is distributed uniformly. where data is distributed non-
uniformly.

15.Name the Categories of SQL Commands? (JUN 2016 )

SQL commands are divided in to the following categories:

1. Data definition language
2. Data manipulation language
3. Data Query language

4. Data control language

5. Data administration statements
6. Transaction control statements

16.Explain “Query Optimization”? State the need of Query Optimization?(JUN 2016, MAY 2015)
Query optimization refers to the process of finding the lowest –cost method of evaluating
a given query.

Query Optimization is a crucial and difficult part of the overall query processing. The
main objective of query optimization is to minimize the following cost function:

I/O cost + CPU cost + Communication cost.

It generates an optimal evaluation plan ( with lowest cost) for the query plan.

17.Why SQL allow duplicate tuples in a table or in a query result? ( NOV 2015)
By default query result and table allow duplicate records. so to avoid unnecessary
checks during SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE SQL allow duplicate tuples in
a table or in a query result.

SELECT returns data according to WHERE filter (or all data, if it is omitted). It simply
checks WHERE conditions for each rows. If table has duplicates and they comply with
WHERE clause, the rows are selected. we can add DISTINCT to avoid duplicates.

Duplicated rows in tables can be restricted with UNIQUE keys.

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18. Give a brief description on DCL command? (NOV 2014)

DCL- Data Control Language

Commands:
i)Grant : Gives a privilege to user
ii) Revoke: Takes back privileges granted from user.
19.What are Primary key constraints? (JUN 2013)
The PRIMARY KEY constraint uniquely identifies each record in a database table. Primary
keys must contain UNIQUE values, and cannot contain NULL values. A table can have
only one primary key, which may consist of single or multiple fields.

20.Write the purpose of trigger?(JUN 2013)

Triggers are statements that are executed automatically by the system as the side effect of
a modification to the database.
In a DBMS, a trigger is a SQL procedure that initiates an action (i.e., fires an action) when an
event (INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE) occurs. ... Stored procedures are explicitly
executed by invoking a CALL to the procedure while triggers are implicitly executed.

21.State the difference between security and integrity? (NOV 2013)

Data integrity = making sure the data is correct and not corruptData security = making sure
only the people who should have access to the data are the only ones who can access the
data. also, keeping straight who can read the data and who can write data.

Pure integrity of data refers to the property which determines that data, once stored, has not
been altered in an unauthorised way -- either by a person, or by the malfunctioning of
hardware.

22.Which operators are called as unary operators and why are they called so? (NOV 2013)
The unary operators are :

Increment: ++x, x++

Decrement: −−x, x−−
Address: &x.
Indirection: *x.
Positive: +x.
Negative: −x.
Ones' complement: ~x.
Logical negation: !x.

A unary operator, is an operator that takes a single operand in an expression or a statement.

A unary operator is an operator that takes only one value for its operation.
23. What are the parts of SQL language?
The SQL language has several parts:
* Data - definitition language
* Data manipulation language
* View definition
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* Integrity
* Authorization

24. What are the three clauses of SQL expression?

SQL expression consists of three clauses:
Select From where

25. Give the general form of SQL query?

Select A1, A2…………., An From R1, R2……………, Rm Where P

26. What is the use of rename operation?

Rename operation is used to rename both relations and a attributes.It uses the as clause,
taking the form: Old-name as new-name

27. Define tuple variable?

Tuple variables are used for comparing two tuples in the same relation. The tuple variables are
defined in the from clause by way of the as clause.

28. List the string operations supported by SQL?

1) Pattern matching Operation
2) Concatenation
3) Extracting character strings
4) Converting between uppercase and lower case letters.

29. List the set operations of SQL?

1) Union
2) Intersect operation
3) The except operation

30. What is the use of Union and intersection operation?

Union: The result of this operation includes all tuples that are either in r1 or in r2 or in both r1
and r2.Duplicate tuples are automatically eliminated.
Intersection: The result of this relation includes all tuples that are in both r1 and

31. What are aggregate functions? And list the aggregate functions supported by SQL?
(NOV 2018)
Aggregate functions are functions that take a collection of values as input and return a single
value.
Aggregate functions supported by SQL are Average: avg
Minimum: min
Maximum: max
Total: sum
Count: count
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32. What is the use of group by clause?
Group by clause is used to apply aggregate functions to a set of tuples.The attributes given
in the group by clause are used to form groups.Tuples with the same value on all attributes in
the group by clause are placed in one group.

33. What is the use of sub queries?

A sub query is a select-from-where expression that is nested with in another query. A
common use of sub queries is to perform tests for set membership, make setcomparisions, and
determine set cardinality.

34. What is view in SQL? How is it defined?

Any relation that is not part of the logical model, but is made visible to a user as a virtual
relation is called a view. We define view in SQL by using the create view command. The form
of the
create view command is
Create view v as <query expression>

35. What is the use of with clause in SQL?

The with clause provides a way of defining a temporary view whose definition is
available only to the query in which the with clause occurs.

36. List the table modification commands in SQL?

Deletion
Insertion Updates
Update of a view

37. List out the statements associated with a database transaction?

Commit work and Rollback work

38. What is transaction?

Transaction is a unit of program execution that accesses and possibly updated various data
items.

39. List the SQL domain Types?

SQL supports the following domain types.
1) Char(n) 2) varchar(n) 3) int 4) numeric(p,d) 5) float(n) 6) date.

40. What is the use of integrity constraints?

Integrity constraints ensure that changes made to the database by authorized users do not
result in a loss of data consistency. Thus integrity constraints guard against accidental damage to
the database.

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41. Mention the two forms of integrity constraints in ER model?
Key declarations
Form of a relationship

42. What are domain constraints?

A domain is a set of values that may be assigned to an attribute .all values that appear in a
column of a relation must be taken from the same domain.

43. What are referential integrity constraints?

A value that appears in one relation for a given set of attributes also appears for acertain set
of attributes in another relation.

44. What is assertion? Mention the forms available.

An assertion is a predicate expressing a condition that we wish the database always to satisfy.
Domain integrity constraints.
Referential integrity constraints

45. Give the syntax of assertion?

Create assertion <assertion name>check<predicate>

46. What is the need for triggers? List the requirements needed to design a trigger.

Triggers are useful mechanisms for alerting humans or for starting certain tasks
automatically when certain conditions are met.

The requirements are

Specifying when a trigger is to be executed.
Specify the actions to be taken when the trigger executes.

47. Give the forms of triggers?

The triggering event can be insert or delete. For updated the trigger can specify columns.
The referencing old row as clause
The referencing new row as clause
The triggers can be initiated before the event or after the event.

48. List the disadvantages of relational database system

Repetition of data
Inability to represent certain information.

49. Write a SQL statement to find the names and loan numbers of all customers who have a loan
at XYZ branch? (NOV 2018)

Select name, loan_no from customers where branch=”XYZ

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The disadvantages of file processing systems are
a) Data redundancy and inconsistency
b) Difficulty in accessing data
c) Data isolation
d) Integrity problems
e) Atomicity problems
f) Concurrent access anomalies

51. What are the advantages of using a DBMS?

The advantages of using a DBMS are
a) Controlling redundancy
b) Restricting unauthorized access
c) Providing multiple user interfaces d) Enforcing integrity constraints.
e) Providing back up and recovery

52. State the levels of data abstraction in DBMS? (NOV 2017)

a) Physical level
b) logical level
c) view level

53. Define instance and schema?

Instance: Collection of data stored in the data base at a particular moment is called an
Instance of the database.
Schema: The overall design of the data base is called the data base schema.

54. Define the terms 1) physical schema 2) logical schema 3)Conceptual Schema

Physical schema: The physical schema describes the database design at the physical
level, which is the lowest level of abstraction describing how the data are actually stored.

Logical schema: The logical schema describes the database design at the logical level,
which describes what data are stored in the database and what relationship exists among the data.

conceptual schema:
The schemas at the view level are called subschemas that describe different views of the
database.

55. Define data model?

A data model is a collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships, data
semantics and consistency constraints.

56. What is storage manager? What are the components of storage Manager?
A storage manager is a program module that provides the interface between the low level
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data stored in a database and the application programs and queries submitted to the system.
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 The storage manager components include
a) Authorization and integrity manager
b) Transaction manager
c) File manager
d) Buffer manager

57. What is the purpose of storage manager? List the data structures implemented by the
storage manager.
The storage manager is responsible for the following
a) Interaction with he file manager
b) Translation of DML commands in to low level file system commands
c) Storing, retrieving and updating data in the database

The storage manager implements the following data structure

a) Data files
b) Data dictionary
c) indices

58. What is a data dictionary?

A data dictionary is a data structure which stores meta data about the structure of the
database ie. the schema of the database.

59.Define codd’s rule.

Dr.E.F.Codd founder of relational db systems,places relational models characteristic in
three categories.They are
a)Structural features
b)Integrity features
c)Data manipulation features.

60.Write short notes on relational model and relational algebra?(Nov 2019)

The relational model uses a collection of tables to represent both data and the
relationships among those data. The relational model is an example of a record based model.

The relational algebra is a procedural query language. It consists of a set of

operations that take one or two relation as input and produce a new relation as output

61. Define tuple , attribute, relation,tuple variable and Domain?

• Attributes: column headers
• Tuple: Row

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elation is a subset of a Cartesian product of list domains.

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uple variable is a variable whose domain is the set of all tuples.
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or each attribute there is a set of permitted values called the domain of that
attribute.

62. What is a primary key, candidate key,super key and foreign key? (APR 2018)
Primary key is chosen by the database designer as the principal means of identifying an
entity in the entity set.

Minimal super keys are called candidate keys.

A super key is a set of one or more attributes that collectively allows us to identify
uniquely an entity in the entity set.

A relation schema r1 derived from an ER schema may include among its attributes the
primary key of another relation schema r2.this attribute is called a foreign key from r1
referencing r2.

63. What is a SELECT and a PROJECT operation?

The select operation selects tuples that satisfy a given predicate. We use the lowercase letter
s to denote selection.

The project operation is a unary operation that returns its argument relation with certain
attributes left out. Projection is denoted by pie (p).

64. Write short notes on tuple relational calculus and domain relational calculus
The tuple relational calculation is anon procedural query language. It describes the desired
information with out giving a specific procedure for obtaining that information.
A query or expression can be expressed in tuple relational calculus as {t | P (t)}

The domain relational calculus uses domain variables that take on values from an
attribute domain rather than values for entire tuple.

65. Write short notes on Schema diagram.

A database schema along with primary key and foreign key dependencies can be depicted
pictorially by schema diagram. Each relation appears as a box with attributes listed inside it and
the relation name above it.

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 66. List the disadvantages of relational database system
Repetition of data
Inability to represent certain information.

67. Distinguish between key and super key? (MAY 2017)

Super Key: An attribute or set of attributes that uniquely identifies a tuple within a relation

Candidate key: A super key such that no proper subset is a super key within the relation

Primary key: The candidate key that is selected to identify tuples uniquely within the relation,
the candidate keys which are not selected as Primary Key are called "Alternate keys"

68.What are the problems caused by redundancy? (NOV 2017)

The Problems caused due to redundancy are : insertion anamaly, deletion anamaly and updation
anamaly.

PART - B

1. Explain select, project and Cartesian product operations in relational algebra with an
example? (NOV 2016, APR 2018)

Select Operation (σ)

It selects tuples that satisfy the given predicate from a relation.

Notation − σp(r)

Where σ stands for selection predicate and r stands for relation. p is prepositional logic formula
which may use connectors like and, or, and not. These terms may use relational operators like −
=, ≠, ≥, < , >, ≤.

For example −

σsubject = "database"(Books)
Output − Selects tuples from books where subject is 'database'.

σsubject = "database" and price = "450"(Books)

Output − Selects tuples from books where subject is 'database' and 'price' is 450.

σsubject = "database" and price = "450" or year > "2010"(Books)

Output − Selects tuples from books where subject is 'database' and 'price' is 450 or those books
published after 2010.

Project Operation (∏)

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It projects column(s) that satisfy a given predicate.
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Notation − ∏A1, A2, An (r)

Where A1, A2 , An are attribute names of relation r.

Duplicate rows are automatically eliminated, as relation is a set.

For example −

∏subject, author (Books)

Selects and projects columns named as subject and author from the relation Books.

Cartesian Product (Χ)

Combines information of two different relations into one.

Notation − r Χ s

Where r and s are relations and their output will be defined as −

r Χ s = { q t | q ∈ r and t ∈ s}

σauthor = 'tutorialspoint'(Books Χ Articles)

Output − Yields a relation, which shows all the books and articles written by tutorialspoint.

2. Briefly explain about views of data? (JUN 2016)

Data Abstraction ( View ) in DBMS:

Database contains three levels of abstraction namely,
Internal or Physical level: describes the physical structure of the database. The
internal schema uses a physical data model and describes the complete details of data
storage and access paths for the database.
Conceptual or Logical level: describes the structure of the whole database for a
community of users. The conceptual schema hides the details of physical storage
structures and concentrates on describing entities, data types, relationships, user
operations and constraints, data stored in database, and the relationships among the
data.
External or View level: includes number of external schemas or user views. Each
external schema describes the part of the database that a particular user group is
interested in and hides the rest of the database from that user group.
The below figure shows the levels of abstraction.

users users

External Schema External View External View

Logical Schema 1
Conceptual or Logical Level
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Physical Schema Internal or Physical Level

Mapping:
The transformation of requests and results from one level to another is called as
mapping.
Schema
It is the logical structure of the database. The tow types of schema are:
 Physical schema represents database design at the physical level
 Logical schema represents database design at the logical level

Instance – the actual content of the database at a particular point in time is called the
instance of the schema
Data Independence
The ability to change a schema at one level without affecting the higher level schemas is
called as data independence. There are two types of data independence:
o Physical Data Independence – is the ability to modify the physical or internal
schema without changing the logical or external schemas.
o Logical Data Independence – is the ability to modify logical or conceptual schema
without changing the external schemas or application programs.

3. With the help of a neat block diagram explain the basic architecture of a database
management system? (NOV 2015) ( or)
Briefly explain about Database System Architecture? (JUN 2016) (or)
Explain the overall architecture of the database system in detail? (MAY 2017) (OR)
State and explain the architecture of DBMS? (NOV 2017, Nov 2019)

The functional components of a database system can be broadly divided into two
Categories namely,
 Storage manager components
 Query Processor components

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ARCHITECTURE

Database Users and

interfaces
There are four
different types of
database-system users. Different types of interfaces have been designed for the different types of
users.

 Naïve Users are unsophisticated users who interact with the system by invoking one of the
application programs that have been written previously. The typical user interface for naïve
users is a forms interface where the user can fill in appropriate fields of the form. Naïve users
may also simply read reports generated from the database.

 Application Programmers are computer professionals who write application programs.

Application Programmers can choose from many tools to develop user interfaces. Rapid
Application Development (RAD) tools are tools that enable an application programmer to
construct forms and reports without witting a program.

 Sophisticated Users interact with the system without writing programs. Instead they form
requests in a database query language. They submit such queries to query processor, whose
function is to break down DML statements into instructions that the storage manager
understands.

 Specialized Users are sophisticated users who write specialized database applications that do
not fit into the traditional data processing framework.

 Database Administrator: The person who has central control over the system is called
1 of DBA include:
database administrator (DBA). The functions
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  Schema Definition: the DBA creates the original database schema by executing a set
of data definition statements in the DDL.

 Storage Structure and access-method definition: the DBA is also responsible for
defining the storage structure and access methods.

 Schema and physical organization modification: the DBA carries out changes to
the schema and physical organization to reflect the changing needs of the
organization, or to alter the physical organization to improve performance.

 Granting of authorization for data access: By granting different types of

authorization, the database administrator can regulate which parts of the database
various users can access. The authorization information is kept in a special system
structure that the database system consults whenever someone attempts to access the
data in the system.

 Routine Maintenance: The DBA,

 Periodically makes the backup of the database, stores either onto tapes or onto
remote servers, to prevent loss of data in case of disasters such as flooding.
 Ensures that enough disk space is available for normal operations, and
upgrades disk space as required.
 Monitors jobs running on the database and ensures that the performance is not
degraded by very expensive tasks submitted by some users.
Functional Components
Storage Manager
Storage manager is important because databases typically require a large amount of storage
space. A storage manager is a program module that provides the interface between the low-level
data stored in the database and the application programs and queries submitted to the system.
The storage manager is responsible for the interaction with the file manager. The storage
manager translates the various DML statements into low-level file system commands. Thus, the
storage manager is responsible for storing retrieving, and updating data in the database.
The storage manager components include:
Authorization and integrity manager
It tests for the satisfaction of integrity constraints and checks the authority of users to
access data.
 Transaction Manager
It ensures that the database remains in a consistent state despite system failures,
and that concurrent transaction executions proceed without conflicting.
 File Manager
It manages the allocation of space on disk storage and the data structures used to
represent information stored on disk.
 Buffer Manager
It is responsible for fetching data from disk storage into main memory, and
decides what data to cache in main memory.
The storage manger implements several data structures as part of the physical system,
implementation:
 Data files, which store the database itself.
 Data Dictionary, which stores structure of the database called metadata.
 Indices, which provide fast access to data items that hold particular values.
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Query Processor
The query processor components include
 DDL interpreter, interprets DDL statements and records the definitions in
the data dictionary
 DML compiler translates DML statements in a query language into an
evaluation plan consisting of low-level instructions that the query
evaluation engine understands. The DML compiler also performs query
optimization that is it picks the lowest cost evaluation plan from among the
alternatives.
 Query evaluation engine executes low-level instructions generated by the
DML compiler.

4. What are the advantages of having a centralized control of data? Illustrate your answer
with suitable example? (NOV 2015)
A centralised database (sometimes abbreviated CDB) is a database that is located, stored, and
maintained in a single location. This location is most often a central computer or database system,
for example a desktop or server CPU, or a mainframe computer. All of the information stored on
the CBS is accessible from a large number of different points, which in turn creates a significant
amount of both advantages and disadvantages.
A centralized database consists of a single data server into which all data are stored and from which
all data are retrieved. All the data reside at a single location and all applications must retrieve all
data from that location.
The centralized approach consists of a central server into which all forecast data are stored. At some
predefined time, software on this central server requests data from each of the local data servers
scattered throughout the country. These data are received, processed and stored, possibly at lower
spatial and temporal resolution than the data from which it was derived.

Typical Examples:
In most cases, a centralised database would be used by an organisation (e.g. a business company) or
an institution (e.g. a university.) Users access a centralised database through a computer network
which is able to give them access to the central CPU, which in turn maintains to the database itself.
DBMS itself was a centralized DBMS where all the DBMS functionality, application program
execution and user interface processing carried out in one machine.
User management system.
Central Documents management system.

ADVANTAGES
Centralised databases hold a substantial amount of advantages against other types of databases.
Some of them are listed below:

 Data integrity is maximised and data redundancy is minimised,[6] as the single storing place
of all the data also implies that a given set of data only has one primary record. This aids in the
maintaining of data as accurate and as consistent as possible and enhances data reliability.
 Generally bigger data security, as the single data storage location implies only a one possible
place from which the database can be attacked and sets of data can be stolen or tampered with.
 Better data preservation than other types of1 databases due to often-included fault-tolerant
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  Easier for using by the end-user due to the simplicity of having a single database design.
 Generally easier data portability and database administration.
 More cost effective than other types of database systems as labour, power supply and
maintenance costs are all minimised.
 Data kept in the same location is easier to be changed, re-organised, mirrored, or analysed.
 All the information can be accessed at the same time from the same location.[7]
 Updates to any given set of data are immediately received by every end-user.
Decreased Risk: With Centralized data management, all edits and manipulation to core data are
housed and stored centrally. This model allows for staunch controls, detailed audit trails, and enables
business users to access consistent data.
Data Consistency: When data feeds are managed in a central repository, an organization can achieve
consistent data management and distribution throughout its global offices and internal systems.
Data Quality: A data-centric approach enables the establishment of a data standard across an
enterprise, allowing organizations to make better business assessments.
Operational Efficiency: When one business unit controls an organization data centrally, the
resources previously devoted to data management can be redirected back to core business needs.
Single Point of Entry: By introducing single point of entry for data, this allows changes from data
vendors to be implemented once, rather than in multiple instances.
Cost Saving: With data management centralized, costs attributed to vendor relationships are better
controlled, minimizing any redundancy in market data contracts and their associated costs.
Factors for Adoption of Centralized Approach:
Data can be organized in single point, by introducing single point of entry for data Database
Administrator can implement the data only once instead of in multiple sites.
Data consistency can achieve by introducing data-centric approach.
Centralized database approach is suitable for establishment of data standards across an enterprise.
For batter security purpose Centralized database approach is suitable.
For quick efficient searching Centralized approach is good one.
For controlled access to the database repository.

5.Write Short notes on

i) Data model and its types (Nov 2014)
(or)
Explain the different groups of data models with suitable examples? (Apr 2019)

.DATA MODELS
A Data Model is a collection of tools for describing
 Data
 Data relationships
 Data semantics and
 Data constraints
The various Data Models are
 Relational model
 Entity-Relationship data model (mainly for database design)
 Object-based data models (Object-oriented and Object-relational)
 Semi-structured data model (XML)
Relational Model
The relational model uses a collection of 2 tables to represent both data and relationships
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below table called customer table, shows, for example, that the customer identified by customer-
id 100 is named john and lives at 12 anna st. in Chennai and also shows his account number

Customer_id Customer_name Cutomer_street Customer_city Account_no

100 John 12 anna st Chennai A-101
101 Karthik 3 main st Chennai A201
103 Lilly 4 north st Chennai A-204

The relational model is an example of a record-based model. The record-based models are
so named because the database is structured in fixed-format records of several types. Each table
contains records of particular type. Each record type defines a fixed number of fields, or
attributes. The columns of the table correspond to the attributes of the record type.
The relational model is at a lower level abstraction than the E-R model. Database designs are
often carried out in the E-R model, and then translated to the relational model.

Entity-Relationship data model

The entity-relationship (E-R) data model, models an enterprise as a collection of entities and
relationships.
Entity: is a “thing” or “object” in the enterprise that is distinguishable from other
objects. They are described by a set of attributes
Relationship: is an association among several entities
The E-R model was developed to facilitate database design. The E-R model is very useful in
mapping the meanings and interactions of real world enterprises onto a conceptual schema. The
E-R model is represented diagrammatically by an entity-relationship diagram as shown below.
In the figure (b) customer and account represents entities, the ellipses represent attributes and
depositor represents relationship among the entities.

Figure b

Object
based
data
models
Ob
ject based
data
models are
categorize
d into object-oriented data model and object-relational data model. The object–oriented data model
can be seen as extending the E-R model with notions of encapsulation, methods or functions and
object identity. The object-relational model extends the relational data model by including object
orientation and constructs to deal with added data types.
Semi-structured data model (XML)
Extensible markup Language is defined by the WWW Consortium (W3C). It was
originally intended as a document markup language and not a database language. It has the ability to
specify new tags, and to create nested tag structures which made XML a great way to exchange
data, not just documents. XML has become the basis for all new generation data interchange
formats. A wide variety of tools is available for parsing, browsing and querying XML
documents/data
Hierarchical Model: 2
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 Hierarchical database model is one of the oldest models, dating from 1950’s. The
hierarchical model assumes that a tree structure is the most frequently occurring relationship. The
hierarchical model organizes data elements as tabular rows, one for each instance of an entity.
Consider a company’s organizational structure. At the top we have general manager (GM). Under
him he has a several deputy general managers (DGM). Each DGM take care of a couple of
departments and each department will have a manger and many employees. When represented in
hierarchical model there will be separate rows for representing the GM, each DGM, each
Department, each Manager and each Employee. The row position implies a relationship to other
rows. A given employee belongs to the department that is the closest above it in the list and the
department belongs to the manager immediately above it and so on.
The hierarchical model represents relationships in a lineraized tree. It is possible to locate a
set of employees working for say, Manager X by first locating Manager X and then including every
employee in the list after X and before the next occurrence of a manager or the end of the list.
Network Model:
The network model replaces the hierarchical tree with a graph, thus, allowing more general
connections among the nodes. The main difference of the network model from the hierarchical
model is its ability to handle many-to-many relationships. In other words, it allows a record to have
more than one parent. Suppose an employee works for two departments. The strict hierarchical
arrangement is not possible here and the tree becomes a more generalized graph-a network. Logical
proximity fails because it is not possible to place a data item simultaneously in two locations in the
list. Although it is possible to handle such situations in a hierarchical model, it becomes more
complicated and difficult to comprehend. The network model was evolved to specifically handle
non-hierarchical relationships.
In network database terminology, a relationship is a set. Each set is made of at least two
types of records: an owner record and a member record.
6.Explain in detail about E. F. Codd‘s Twelve Rules for Relational Databases?

E. F. Codd‘s Twelve Rules for Relational Databases

Codd’s twelve rules call for a language that can be used to define, manipulate, and query the
data in the database, expressed as a string of characters. Some references to the twelve rules
include a thirteenth rule – or rule zero:

1. Information Rule: All information in the database should be represented in one and only one
way – as values in a table

2. Guaranteed Access Rule: Each and every datum (atomic value) is guaranteed to be logically
accessible by resorting to a combination of table name, primary key value, and column name.

3. Systematic Treatment of Null Values: Null values (distinct from empty character string or a
string of blank characters and distinct from zero or any other number) are supported in the fully
relational DBMS for representing missing information in a systematic way, independent of data
type.

4. Dynamic Online Catalog Based on the Relational Model: The database

description is represented at the logical level in the

2 same way as ordinary data, so authorized users
can apply the same relational language to its interrogation
2 as they apply to regular data.
 5. Comprehensive Data Sublanguage Rule: A relational system may support several languages
and various modes of terminal use. However, there must be at least one language whose statements
are expressible, per some well-defined syntax, as character strings and whose ability to support all of
the following data definition, view definition, data manipulation (interactive and by program),
integrity constraints, authorization , transaction boundaries (begin, commit, and rollback).

6. View Updating Rule: All views that are theoretically updateable are also updateable by the
system.

7. High-Level Insert, Update, and Delete: The capability of handling a base relation or a derived
relation as a single operand applies not only to the retrieval of data, but also to the insertion, update,
and deletion of data.

8. Physical Data Independence: Application programs and terminal activities remain logically
unimpaired whenever any changes are made in either storage representation or access methods.

9. Logical Data Independence: Application programs and terminal activities remain logically

unimpaired when information preserving changes of any kind that theoretically permit

unimpairment are made to the base tables.

10. Integrity Independence: Integrity constraints specific to a particular relational database must
be definable in the relational data sublanguage and storable in the catalog, not in the application
programs.

11. Distribution Independence: The data manipulation sublanguage of a relational DBMS must
enable application programs and terminal activities to remain logically unimpaired whether and
whenever data are physically centralized or distributed.

12. Nonsubversion Rule: If a relational system has or supports a low-level (single-record-at-a-time)

language, that low-level language cannot be used to subvert or bypass the integrity rules or
constraints expressed in the higher-level (multiple-records-at-a-time) relational language.

7.Explain in detail about Relational Algebra? (NOV 2019)

(or)
List the operations of relational algebra and the purpose of each with example? (MAY 2017)

Relational Algebra
Relational algebra is a procedural query language, which takes instances of relations as input and
yields instances of relations as output. It uses operators to perform queries. An operator can be
either unary or binary. They accept relations as their input and yield relations as their output.
Relational algebra is performed recursively on a relation and intermediate results are also
considered relations. 2
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The fundamental operations of relational algebra are as follows −

Select
 Project
 Union
 Set different
 Cartesian product
 Rename
We will discuss all these operations in the following sections.

Select Operation (σ)

It selects tuples that satisfy the given predicate from a relation.

Notation − σp(r)

Where σ stands for selection predicate and r stands for relation. p is prepositional logic formula
which may use connectors like and, or, and not. These terms may use relational operators like −
=, ≠, ≥, < , >, ≤.

For example −

σsubject = "database"(Books)
Output − Selects tuples from books where subject is 'database'.

σsubject = "database" and price = "450"(Books)

Output − Selects tuples from books where subject is 'database' and 'price' is 450.

σsubject = "database" and price = "450" or year > "2010"(Books)

Output − Selects tuples from books where subject is 'database' and 'price' is 450 or those books
published after 2010.

Project Operation (∏)

It projects column(s) that satisfy a given predicate.

Notation − ∏A1, A2, An (r)

Where A1, A2 , An are attribute names of relation r.

Duplicate rows are automatically eliminated, as relation is a set.

For example −

∏subject, author (Books)

Selects and projects columns named as subject and author from the relation Books.

Union Operation (∪)

It performs binary union between two given relations and is defined as −
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r ∪ s = { t | t ∈ r or t ∈ s}
Notation − r U s

Where r and s are either database relations or relation result set (temporary relation).

For a union operation to be valid, the following conditions must hold −

 r, and s must have the same number of attributes.

 Attribute domains must be compatible.
 Duplicate tuples are automatically eliminated.
∏ author (Books) ∪ ∏ author (Articles)
Output − Projects the names of the authors who have either written a book or an article or both.

Set Difference (−)

The result of set difference operation is tuples, which are present in one relation but are not in the
second relation.

Notation − r − s

Finds all the tuples that are present in r but not in s.

∏ author (Books) − ∏ author (Articles)

Output − Provides the name of authors who have written books but not articles.

Cartesian Product (Χ)

Combines information of two different relations into one.

Notation − r Χ s

Where r and s are relations and their output will be defined as −

r Χ s = { q t | q ∈ r and t ∈ s}

σauthor = 'tutorialspoint'(Books Χ Articles)

Output − Yields a relation, which shows all the books and articles written by tutorialspoint.

Rename Operation (ρ)

The results of relational algebra are also relations but without any name. The rename operation
allows us to rename the output relation. 'rename' operation is denoted with small Greek letter rho ρ.

Notation − ρ x (E)

Where the result of expression E is saved with name of x.

Additional operations are −

 Set intersection
 Assignment
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 Natural join 5
 Relational Calculus
In contrast to Relational Algebra, Relational Calculus is a non-procedural query language, that is, it
tells what to do but never explains how to do it.

Relational calculus exists in two forms −

Tuple Relational Calculus (TRC)

Filtering variable ranges over tuples

Notation − {T | Condition}

Returns all tuples T that satisfies a condition.

For example −

{ T.name | Author(T) AND T.article = 'database' }

Output − Returns tuples with 'name' from Author who has written article on 'database'.

TRC can be quantified. We can use Existential (∃) and Universal Quantifiers (∀).

For example −

{ R| ∃T ∈ Authors(T.article='database' AND R.name=T.name)}

Output − The above query will yield the same result as the previous one.

Domain Relational Calculus (DRC)

In DRC, the filtering variable uses the domain of attributes instead of entire tuple values (as done in
TRC, mentioned above).

Notation −

{ a1, a2, a3, ..., an | P (a1, a2, a3, ... ,an)}

Where a1, a2 are attributes and P stands for formulae built by inner attributes.

For example −

{< article, page, subject > | ∈ TutorialsPoint ∧ subject = 'database'}

Output − Yields Article, Page, and Subject from the relation TutorialsPoint, where subject is
database.

Just like TRC, DRC can also be written using existential and universal quantifiers. DRC also
involves relational operators.

The expression power of Tuple Relation Calculus and Domain Relation Calculus is equivalent to
Relational Algebra.

8.Explain the various types of join? (APR 2018)

JOIN Operation
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 – The sequence of cartesian product followed by select is used quite commonly to
identify and select related tuples from two relations, a special operation, called JOIN.
It is denoted by a
– This operation is very important for any relational database with more than a single
relation, because it allows us to process relationships among relations.
– The general form of a join operation on two relations R(A1, A2, . . ., An) and S(B1, B2,
. . ., Bm) is:
R <join condition>S where R and S can be any relations that result from general
relational algebra expressions.
Example: Suppose that we want to retrieve the name of the manager of each department. To get the
manager’s name, we need to combine each DEPARTMENT tuple with the EMPLOYEE tuple
whose SSN value matches the MGRSSN value in the department tuple. We do this by using the join
operation.
DEPT_MGR  DEPARTMENT MGRSSN=SSN EMPLOYEE

 EQUIJOIN Operation
The most common use of join involves join conditions with equality comparisons only. Such
a join, where the only comparison operator used is =, is called an EQUIJOIN. In the result of an
EQUIJOIN we always have one or more pairs of attributes (whose names need not be identical) that
have identical values in every tuple. The JOIN seen in the previous example was EQUIJOIN.

 NATURAL JOIN Operation

Because one of each pair of attributes with identical values is superfluous, a new operation
called natural join—denoted by *—was created to get rid of the second (superfluous) attribute in an
EQUIJOIN condition. The standard definition of natural join requires that the two join attributes, or
each pair of corresponding join attributes, have the same name in both relations. If this is not the
case, a renaming operation is applied first.
To apply a natural join on the DNUMBER attributes of DEPARTMENT and
DEPT_LOCATIONS, it is sufficient to write: DEPT_LOCS  DEPARTMENT *
DEPT_LOCATIONS

The set of operations including select s, project p , union È, set difference - , and
Cartesian product X is called a complete set because any other relational algebra expression can be
expressed by a combination of these five operations.
 For example: 2
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 R Ç S = (R È S ) – ((R - S) È (S - R))
R <join condition>S = s <join condition> (R X S)

The OUTER JOIN Operation

– In NATURAL JOIN tuples without a matching (or related) tuple are eliminated from
the join result. Tuples with null in the join attributes are also eliminated. This
amounts to loss of information.
– A set of operations, called outer joins, can be used when we want to keep all the
tuples in R, or all those in S, or all those in both relations in the result of the join,
regardless of whether or not they have matching tuples in the other relation.
– The left outer join operation keeps every tuple in the first or left relation R in R
S; if no matching tuple is found in S, then the attributes of S in the join result are
filled or “padded” with null values.
– A similar operation, right outer join, keeps every tuple in the second or right relation
S in the result of R S.
– A third operation, full outer join, denoted by keeping all tuples in both the left and
the right relations when no matching tuples are found, padding them with null values
as needed.

Additional Relational operations

 Aggregate Functions and Grouping
– A type of request that cannot be expressed in the basic relational algebra is to specify
mathematical aggregate functions on collections of values from the database.
– Examples of such functions include retrieving the average or total salary of all
employees or the total number of employee tuples. These functions are used in simple
statistical queries that summarize information from the database tuples.
– Common functions applied to collections of numeric values include SUM,
AVERAGE, MAXIMUM, and MINIMUM. The COUNT function is used for
counting tuples or values.

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8.Consider the given relation schema . ( MAY 2017, NOV 2018 )

Employee(empno,name,office,age)
Books(isbn,title,authors,publisher)
Loan(empno,isbn,date)

Write the following queries in SQL

(a) Find the name of all employees who have borrowed a book published by McGraw-Hill.
(b) Find the name of all employees who have borrowed all book published by McGraw-
Hill.
(c) Find the names of employees who have borrowed more than five different books
published by McGraw-Hill.
(d) For each publisher, find the name of employees who have borrowed more than five
books of that publisher.

a. select name from employee e, books b, loan l where e.empno = l.empno and l.isbn = b.isbn
and b.publisher = ‘McGrawHill’

b. select name from employee e join loan l on e.empno=l.empno join (select isbn from books
where publisher = 'McGrawHill') x on l.isbn=x.isbn group by e.empno,name having count(*)=
(select count(*) from books where publisher=’McGrawHill’)

c. select name from employee,loan where employee.empno=loan.empno and isbn in ( select

distinct isbn from books where publisher='McGraw-Hill') group by employee.empno,name
having count(isbn) >=5
d. select name from employee,loan,books where employee.empno=loan.empno and
books.isbn=loan.isbn group by employee.empno, name,books.publisher having
count(loan.isbn) >=5
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9.Explain the following with examples:
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 i)DDL
ii)DML
iii)Embedded SQL (NOV 2014)

i) Data definition language:

The data definition language is used to specify a database schema by a set of definitions.
The storage structure and access methods used by the database system, is specified by a set
of statements in a special type of DDL called a data storage and definition language. These
statements define the implementation details of the database schemas, which are usually hidden
from the users.
The data values stored in the database must satisfy certain constraints. For example, suppose
the balance on an account should not fall below $1100. The DDL provides facilities to specify such
constraints. The database systems check these constraints every time the database is updated.
The various constraints involved in the database is given below:
Domain Constraints:
A domain of possible values must be associated with every attribute (for example,
integer types, character types, date/time types). Declaring an attribute to be of particular
domain acts as a constraint on the values it can take. Domain constraints are tested easily by
the system whenever a new data item is entered into the database.
Referential Integrity:
The referential integrity is used to ensure that a value that appears in one relation for
a given set of attributes also appears for a certain set of attributes in another relation.
Database modifications can cause violations of referential integrity. When a referential
integrity constraint is violated, the database rejects the action that caused the violation.
Assertion:
An assertion is any condition that the database must always satisfy. When an
assertion is created, the system tests it for validity. If the assertion is valid, then any future
modification to the database is allowed only if it does not that assertion to be violated.
Authorization:
Authorization specifies what types of access are permitted for users on various data values in
the database. The authorizations can be categorized as:
o Read authorization, allows reading, but not modification of existing data.
o Update authorization, allows insertion of new data, but not modification of existing
data.
o Delete authorization, allows deletion of data.

The DDL gets as input some instructions and generates some output. The output of the DDL
is placed in the data dictionary, which contains metadata- that is data about data. The data
dictionary is considered to be special type of table, which can only be accessed and updated by the
database system itself. A database system consults the data dictionary before reading or modifying
actual data.
ii) Data Manipulation Language:
A data manipulation language (DML) is a language that enables users to access or
manipulate data organized by the appropriate data model. The types of access are:
o Retrieval of information stored in the database
o Insertion of new information into the database
o Deletion of information from the database
o Modification of information stored in the database
There are basically two types:
Procedural DMLs require a user 3to specify what data are needed and how to get
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 those data.
Declarative DMLs (also referred to as nonprocedural DMLs) require a user to specify
what data are needed without specifying how to get those data.
A query is a statement requesting the retrieval of information. The portion of a DML that
involves information retrieval is called a query language.

Embedded SQL:
An embedded SQL program must be processed by a special preprocessor prior to compilation.
The preprocessor replaces embedded SQL requests with host-language declarations and procedure
calls that allow run-time execution of the database accesses. Then, the resulting program is compiled
by the host language compiler. To identify embedded SQL requests to the preprocessor, we use the
EXEC SQL statement. It has the form
EXEC SQL <embedded SQL statement> END-EXEC
The exact syntax for embedded SQL requests depends on the language in which SQL is
embedded. For instance, a semicolon is used instead of END-EXEC when SQL is embedded in C.
The java embedding of SQL called (SQLJ) uses the syntax
#SQL{<embedded SQL statement>}
The statement SQL INCLUDE is placed in the program to identify the place where the
preprocessor should insert the special variables used for communication between the program and
the database system. Variables of the host language can be used within embedded SQL statements,
but they must be preceded by a colon (:) to distinguish them from SQL variables.
Before executing any SQL statements, the program must first connect to the database. This is
done using
EXEC SQL connect to server user user-name END-EXEC

10.Expalin the aggregate functions in SQL with an example(APR 2018)

Aggregate functions are functions that take a collection of values as input and return a single
value.
Aggregate functions supported by SQL are Average: avg
Minimum: min
Maximum: max
Total: sum
Count: count

Group by clause is used to apply aggregate functions to a set of tuples.The attributes given
in the group by clause are used to form groups.Tuples with the same value on all attributes in
the group by clause are placed in one group.

 Aggregate Functions
– A type of request that cannot be expressed in the basic relational algebra is to specify
mathematical aggregate functions on collections of values from the database.
– Examples of such functions include retrieving the average or total salary of all
employees or the total number of employee tuples. These functions are used in simple
statistical queries that summarize information from the database tuples.
– Common functions applied to collections of numeric values include SUM,
AVERAGE, MAXIMUM, and MINIMUM. The COUNT function is used for
counting tuples or values.

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 Example:
1. Consider the following SQL query on the EMPLOYEE relation:
SELECT Lname, Fname
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE Salary > ( SELECT MAX (Salary)
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE Dno=5 );
This query retrieves the names of employees (from any department in the company) who
earn a salary that is greater than the highest salary in department 5. The query includes a nested
subquery and hence would be decomposed into two blocks.

2. Find the name of all employees who have borrowed all book published by McGraw-
Hill.

Select name from employee e join loan l on e.empno=l.empno join (select isbn from books where
publisher = 'McGrawHill') x on l.isbn=x.isbn group by e.empno,name having count(*)= (select
count(*) from books where publisher=’McGrawHill’)

11.Describe the six clauses in the syntax of an SQL query, and show what type of constructs can be
specified in each of the six clauses. Which of the six clauses are required and which are optional?
(NOV 2015)

The six clauses of the SELECT statement

There are six clauses that can be used in an SQL statement. These six clauses are SELECT,
FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, and ORDER BY. Clauses must be coded in a
specific sequence.
1. SELECT column name(s)*
2. FROM table or views
3. WHERE conditions or predicates are met
4. GROUP BY subsets of rows
5. HAVING a common condition as a group 3
6. ORDER BY a sorting method 2
 column name(s) are more correctly referred to as elements, because the SELECT statement
displays both columns that exist in the table and columns that may be generated by SQL
as a result of a query.

Example query

SELECT perkey, sum(dollars)

FROM aroma.sales
WHERE perkey < 50
GROUP BY perkey
HAVING sum(dollars) > 8000
ORDER BY perkey;

The SELECT clause is where you list the columns you're interested in. The SELECT displays
what you put here.

In the example, the perkey column, as well as the sum of the dollar column, are selected.

The FROM clause indicates the table you're getting your information from. You can list more
than one table. The number of tables you could list is specific to your operating system. In
the example, both columns are selected from the Sales table.

SELECT and FROM are required; the rest of these clauses are optional and serve to filter or
limit, aggregate or combine, and control the sort.

The WHERE clause is where you indicate a condition. This helps you filter unwanted data
from the results. WHERE gives you a subset of the rows in a table. In the example, only
rows with a perkey value of less than 50 are selected.

GROUP BY allows you to group your data to achieve more meaningful results. Instead of
getting a total sum of the dollar sales for all the rows selected, you can break down sales
by perkey to get the daily sales total. This is done in the example by indicating GROUP
BY perkey.

HAVING puts a condition on your groups. In the example, only those days that have a total
dollar amount greater than 8,000 are returned.

ORDER BY orders your result rows. You can choose to order results by ASC (ascending) or
DESC (descending) order. The default is ASC.

The SELECT statement is the most common usage of data manipulation language (DML).
Other DML statements (UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE) and the other two
components of
SQL (data definition language and control language) .

12.Explain about SQL Fundamentals? (JUN 2016) (OR)

State and Explain DDL, DML, DCL with suitable examples. (NOV 2017), (NOV 2019)

Structured Query Language 3

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 -92 and SQL-99 Standards –

Purpose:

t of schemas that constitute the description of a database

constraints)

eating, altering, and dropping tables and

establishing constraints

ommitting
Data

SQL Database Definition

– defines a portion of the database owned by a particular user

– defines a table and its columns
– defines a logical table from one or more views

CHARACTER SET, COLLATION, TRANSLATION,ASSERTION, DOMAIN

-set of a SELECT statement.

real table. The fields in a view are fields from
one or more real tables in the database. In some cases, we can modify a view and present the
data as if the data were coming from a single table.

CREATE VIEW view_name AS SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name WHERE

Condition

SQL – Relations, Tables & Views

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We sometimes use the term ―base relation‖ or ―base table‖
1. Virtual rela
2. Temporary results

SQL – Create View

length, inColor, studioName, producerC#)

CREATE VIEW ParamountMovie AS SELECT title,year FROM Movie WHERE studioName

=‗Paramount‘;

SQL – Querying View

adding functions, joins, etc., to a view, it allows us to present exactly the data we want to the
user.

SELECT title FROM ParamountMovie WHERE year = ‗1979‘;

SELECT title FROM Movie WHERE studioName = ‗Paramount‘ AND year = ‗1979‘;

Example:

Movie (title, year, length, inColor, studioName, producerC#) MovieExec (name, address, cert#,
netWorth)

CREATE VIEW MovieProd AS SELECT title, name FROM Movie, MovieExec WHERE
producerC# = cert#; SELECT name FROM MovieProd WHERE title = ‗Gone With the Wind‘;

SELECT name FROM Movie, MovieExec WHERE producerC# = cert# AND title = ‗The War Of
the World‘;

Data Types in SQL

– fixed-length character data, n characters long Maximum length = 2000

bytes
– variable length character data, maximum 4000 bytes
– variable-length character data, up to 4GB. Maximum 1 per table

– general purpose numeric data type

– signed integer, p digits wide
– floating point in scientific notation with p binary digits precision

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13.Explain about Data Definition Language? (JUN 2016)
Data Definition Language:

A data definition language or data description language (DDL) is a syntax similar to a

computer programming language for defining data structures, especially database schemas.
Many data description languages use a declarative syntax to define fields and data types.

SQL, however, uses a collection of imperative verbs whose effect is to modify the schema of
the database by adding,changing, or deleting definitions of tables or other objects.
These statements can be freely mixed with other SQL statements, so the DDL is not truly a
separate language.

CREATE statements
Create - To make a new database, table, index, or stored procedure.

A CREATE statement in SQL creates an object in a relational database management system

(RDBMS). In the SQL 1992 specification, the types of objects that can be created are
schemas, tables, views, domains, character sets, collations, translations, and assertions.
Many implementations extend the syntax to allow creation of additional objects, such as
indexes and user profiles. Some systems (such as PostgreSQL) allow CREATE, and other
DDL commands, inside a transaction and thus they
may be rolled back.

CREATE TABLE statement

A commonly used CREATE command is the CREATE TABLE command. The typical usage
is:

CREATE TABLE [table name] ( [column definitions] ) [table parameters].

column definitions: A comma-separated list consisting of any of the following

Column definition: [column name] [data type] {NULL | NOT NULL} {column options}
Primary key definition: PRIMARY KEY ( [comma separated column list] )
Constraints: {CONSTRAINT} [constraint definition]

RDBMS specific functionality For example, the command to create a table named employees
with a few sample columns would be:

CREATE TABLE employees (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,first_name VARCHAR(50)

NULL, last_name VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL,
fname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,dateofbirth DATE NULL);

DROP statements

Drop - To destroy an existing database, table, index, or view.

A DROP statement in SQL removes an object from a relational database management system
(RDBMS). The types of objects that can be dropped depends on which RDBMS is being
used, but most support the dropping of tables,
3 users, and databases. Some systems (such as
PostgreSQL) allow DROP and other DDL6 commands to occur inside of a transaction and
 thus be rolled back.

DROP objecttype objectname.

For example, the command to drop a table named employees would be:

DROP employees;

The DROP statement is distinct from the DELETE and TRUNCATE statements, in that
DELETE and TRUNCATE do not remove the table itself. For example, a DELETE statement
might delete some (or all) data from a table while leaving the table itself in the database,
whereas a DROP statement would remove the entire table from the database.

ALTER statements

Alter - To modify an existing database object.

An ALTER statement in SQL changes the properties of an object inside of a relational database
management system (RDBMS). The types of objects that can be altered depends on which
RDBMS is being used.

The typical usage is:

ALTER objecttype objectname parameters.

For example, the command to add (then remove) a column named bubbles for an existing table
named sink would be:

ALTER TABLE sink ADD bubbles INTEGER;

ALTER TABLE sink DROP COLUMN bubbles;

Rename statement

Rename - to rename the table. for example

RENAME TABLE old_name TO new_name;

Referential integrity statements

Finally, another kind of DDL sentence in SQL is one used to define referential integrity
relationships, usually implemented as primary key and foreign key tags in some columns of
the tables. These two statements can be included inside a CREATE TABLE or an ALTER
TABLE sentence.

14.What is embedded SQL? Give an example?(Nov 2016)

(or)
Justify the need of Embedded SQL? (May 2017 ) (or)
Justify the need of Embedded SQL? Write Embedded dynamic SQL statement in C to retrieve all
the student records whose mark is more than 90? (NOV 2017)

SQL provides a powerful declarative query language.

3 Writing queries in SQL is usually much easier
than coding the same queries in a general-purpose
7 language. However, a programmer must have
access to a database from a general purpose programming language for at least two reasons:
1. Not all queries can be expressed in SQL, since SQL does not provide the full
expressive power of a general purpose language. That is, there exist queries that can
be expressed in a language such as C, java, or COBOL that cannot be expressed in
SQL. To write such queries, we can embed SQL within a more powerful language.
2. Non declarative actions-such as printing a report, interacting with a user, or sending
the results of a query to a graphical user interface cannot be done from within SQL.
The SQL standard defines embeddings of SQL in a variety of programming languages such as
Pascal, PL/I, FORTRAN, C, and COBOL. A language to which SQL queries are embedded is
referred to as a host language, and the SQL structures permitted in the host language comprise
embedded SQL.
Programs written in the host language can use the embedded SQL syntax to access and update
data stored in a database. This embedded form of SQL extends the programmer’s ability to
manipulate the database even further. In embedded SQL, all query processing is performed by the
database system, which then makes the result of the query available to the programmer one tuple at a
time.
An embedded SQL program must be processed by a special preprocessor prior to compilation.
The preprocessor replaces embedded SQL requests with host-language declarations and procedure
calls that allow run-time execution of the database accesses. Then, the resulting program is compiled
by the host language compiler. To identify embedded SQL requests to the preprocessor, we use the
EXEC SQL statement. It has the form
EXEC SQL <embedded SQL statement> END-EXEC
The exact syntax for embedded SQL requests depends on the language in which SQL is
embedded. For instance, a semicolon is used instead of END-EXEC when SQL is embedded in C.
The java embedding of SQL called (SQLJ) uses the syntax
#SQL{<embedded SQL statement>}
The statement SQL INCLUDE is placed in the program to identify the place where the
preprocessor should insert the special variables used for communication between the program and
the database system. Variables of the host language can be used within embedded SQL statements,
but they must be preceded by a colon (:) to distinguish them from SQL variables.
Before executing any SQL statements, the program must first connect to the database. This is
done using
EXEC SQL connect to server user user-name END-EXEC
Here server identifies the server to which a connection is to be established. Database
implementations may require a password to be provided in addition to a user name.
To write a relational query, the declare cursor statement is used. The program must use the
open and fetch commands to obtain the result tuples.
Consider the banking schema. Assume that we have a host language variable amount, and
that we wish to find the names and cities of residence of customers who have more than amount
dollars in any account. The query can be written as follows:
EXEC SQL

Declare c cursor for

select customer-name, customer-city
from depositor, customer, account
where depositor.customer-name = customer.customer-name
and depositor account-number = account.account-number
and account.balance > :amount
END-EXEC
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  The open statement causes the query to be evaluated and to save the result in the temporary
relation.
EXEC SQL open c END-EXEC
If the SQL statement results in an error the database system stores an error diagnostic in the
SQL communication area (SQLCA) variables, whose declarations are inserted by the SQL include
statement.
 The fetch statement causes the values of one tuple in the query result to be placed on host
language variables.

EXEC SQL fetch c into :cn, :cc END-EXEC

The fetch statement requires one host-language variable for each attribute of the result
relation. In the example query cn holds the customer-name and cc holds the customer-city.
To obtain all tuples of the result, the program must contain a loop to iterate over tuples.
When the program executes an open statement on a cursor, the cursor is set to point to the first tuple
of the result. Each time it executes a fetch statement, the cursor is updated to point to the next tuple
of the result. When no further tuples remain to be processed, the variable called SQLSTATE in the
SQL communication area (SQLCA) gets set to ‘02000’ to indicate no more data is available.
 The close statement causes the database system to delete the temporary relation that holds
the result of the query.
EXEC SQL close c END-EXEC
Updates through Cursors
 Embedded SQL can update tuples fetched by cursor by declaring that the cursor is for update
as shown below:
declare c cursor for
select * from account where branch-name = ‘Perryridge’
for update

 We then iterate through the tuples by performing fetch operations on the cursor, and after
fetching each tuple the following code is executed.
update account set balance = balance + 100 where current of c

15.Explain in detail about Data Manipulation Language?

DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE (DML):
The language used to manipulate data is called DML Manipulation of data includes the insertion
of data into the database, modification of data stored in the database, deletion of data from the
database and retrieval of data for further process. The commands used are
 Insert
 Update
 Delete

#THE INSERT COMMAND

The INSERT is used to add a single tuple to a relation. The values should be listed in the
same order in which the corresponding attributes were specified in the CREATE TABLE command.
There are three ways to insert a record into the database.
1. Inserting Data’s in specified columns:
Syntax:
INSERT INTO table_name(col1,col2,…….,coln)
VALUES(val1,val2,……,valn); 3
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2. Inserting Values:
Syntax:
INSERT INTO table_name VALUES(val1,val2,……...,valn);
3. Inserting Multiple Rows:
Syntax:
INSERT INTO tablename VALUES(&col1,’&col2’,’&col3’,…….,&coln);

For example, to add a new tuple to the EMPLOYEE relation.

INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE VALUES ( ‘Richard’, ‘K’, ‘Marini’, ‘653298653’, ‘1962-12-30’, ‘98
Oak Forest, Katy, TX’, ‘M’, 37000, ‘653298653’, 4 );

#THE DELETE COMMAND

The DELETE command removes tuples from a relation. It includes a WHERE clause,
similar to that used in an SQL query, to select the tuples to be deleted. Tuples are explicitly deleted
from only one table at a time.
Depending on the number of tuples selected by the condition in the WHERE clause, zero,
one, or several tuples can be deleted by a single DELETE command. A missing WHERE clause
specifies that all tuples in the relation are to be deleted; however, the table remains in the database as
an empty table.
Syntax:
DELETE FROM table_name
WHERE column name=some value;

Example:
DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE Lname=‘Brown’;

#THE UPDATE COMMAND

The UPDATE command is used to modify attribute values of one or more selected tuples.An
additional SET clause in the UPDATE command specifies the attributes to be modified and their
new values.
Syntax:
UPDATE table_name
SET column name =new value
WHERE column name=some value;

For example, to change the location and controlling department number of project number 10 to
‘Bellaire’ and 5, respectively.
UPDATE PROJECT SET Plocation = ‘Bellaire’, Dnum = 5 WHERE Pnumber=10;

#THE SELECT STATEMENT

SQL has one basic statement for retrieving information from a database: the SELECT
statement The basic form of the SELECT statement, sometimes called a mapping or a select-from-
where block, is formed of the three clauses SELECT, FROM, and WHERE and has the following
form:
SELECT <attribute list>
FROM <table list>
WHERE <condition>;
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■ <attribute list> is a list of attribute names whose values are to be retrieved by the query.
■ <table list> is a list of the relation names required to process the query.
■ <condition> is a conditional (Boolean) expression that identifies the tuples to be retrieved by the
query
Example:
Retrieve the birth date and address of the employee(s) whose name is ‘John B. Smith’.
Q0: SELECT Bdate, Address FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE Fname=‘John’ AND Minit=‘B’
AND Lname=‘Smith’;

Bdate Address
1965-01-09 731Fondren, Houston,
TX
16.Explain the various ways in which
Select Statement can be used?

The SELECT statement can be used in many ways. They are:

1. Selecting some columns:To select specified number of columns from the table the following
command is used.
Syntax:
SELECT column name FROM table_name;
2. Query All Columns:To select all columns from the table * is used instead of column names.
Syntax:
SELECT * FROM table_name
3. Select using DISTINCT:The DISTINCT keyword is used to return only different values (i.e. )
this command does not select the duplicate values from the table .
Syntax:
SELECT DISTINCT column name(s) FROM table_name;
4. Select using IN:If you want to get the rows, which contain certain values, the best way to do it is
to use the IN conditional expression.
Syntax:
SELECT column name(s) FROM table_name WHERE
Column name IN(value1,value2,……,value n);
5. Select using BETWEEN:BETWEEN can be used to get those items that fall within a range.
Syntax:
SELECT column name FROM table_name WHERE
Column name BETWEEN value1 AND value2;
6. Renaming:The select statement can be used to rename either a column or the entire table.
Syntax:
Renaming a column: SELECT column name AS new name FROM table_name;

Renaming a table: SELECT column name FROM table_name AS newname;

7. Sorting: The select statement with the order by Clause is used to sort the contents of the table
either in ascending or descending order.
Syntax:
SELECT column name FROM table_name WHERE
Condition ORDER BY column name ASC/DESC;
8. To Select by matching some patterns:The select statement along with like clause I is used to
match strings. The like condition is used to specify a search pattern in a column.
Syntax:
SELECT column name FROM table_name WHERE
Column name LIKE “% or-“; 4
% : Matches any sub string. 1
 - : Matches a single character.
9. SELECT INTO statement:The SELECT INTO statement is most often used to create backup
copies of tables or for archiving records.
Syntax:
SELECT Column_name(s) INTO variable_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition.
10. To Select NULL values:We can use the SELECT statement to select the ‘null’ values also. For
retrieving rows where some of the columns have been defined as NULLs there is a special
comparison operator of the form IS[NOT]NULL.
Syntax:
SELECT column name FROM table_name WHERE
Column name IS NULL;
11. Select using AND, OR, NOT:We can combine one or more conditions in a SELECT statement
using the logical operators AND,OR,NOT.
Syntax:
SELECT column name FROM table_name WHERE
Condition1 LOGICAL OPERATOR condition2;

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DATABASE DESIGN

PART - A

1.Why 4NF in Normal Form is more desirable than BCNF? (NOV 2014)
Because 4NF minimize the redundancy as well as make storage management. Redundancy is
reduced as we normalize it further and this avoids consistency problems.

2.Define functional Dependency? (MAY 2015)

Functional dependency is a relationship that exists when one attribute uniquely determines another
attribute.
It R is a relation with attributes X and Y, a functional dependency between the attributes is
represented as X->Y, which specifies Y is functionally dependent on X.
Functional Dependecny (FD) is a set of constraints between two attributes in a relation.

3.State the anamolies of 1NF?(NOV 2015)

1NF databases have some problems:
Most notable:
 repetition of data
 to change a department name all tuples of the relation need to be updated since the
department name can exist in multiple rows.

4.Explain entity relationship model? (APR 2016)

ER model defines the mapping between the entities in the database

ER model is a graphical representation of real world objects with their attributes and relationship. It
makes the system easily understandable. This model is considered as a top down approach for
designing a requirement.

5. What is meant by lossless-join decomposition? APRIL/MAY-2011

We claim the above decomposition is lossless. How can we decide whether decomposition is
lossless?
1. Let R be a relation schema.
2. Let F be a set of functional dependencies on R.
3. Let R1and R2 form a decomposition of R.
4. The decomposition is a lossless-join decomposition of R if at least one of the following functional
dependencies are in :
a. R1∩ R2→ R1
b. R1∩ R2→ R2

6. Define Boyce codd normal form? Why BCNF Stricter then 3NF? (Nov 2019)
A relation schema R is in BCNF with respect to a set F of functional dependencies if, for
all functional dependencies in F.

BCNF is stricter than 3NF because each and every4 BCNF is relation to 3NF but every 3NF is not
relation to BCNF. 4. BCNF non-transitionally depends
3 on individual candidate key but there is
 no such requirement in 3NF.Hence BCNF is stricter than 3NF.

7. What is meant by functional dependencies? What are the uses of functional

dependencies?
Consider a relation schema R and α C R and β C R. The functional dependency α -> β holds
on relational schema R if in any legal relation r(R), for all pairs of
tuples t1 and t2 in r such that t1 [α] = t2 [α], and also t1 [β] =t2 [β].

To test relations to see whether they are legal under a given set of functional dependencies. To
specify constraints on the set of legal relations.

8. Explain trivial dependency?

Functional dependency of the form α -> β is trivial if β C α Trivial functional dependencies
are satisfied by all the relations.

9. What is meant by normalization of data and Denormalization?

It is a process of analyzing the given relation schemas based on their Functional Dependencies
(FDs) and primary key to achieve the properties
Minimizing redundancy
Minimizing insertion, deletion and updating anomalies.

Denormalization: It is the process of attempting to optimize the performance of a

database by adding redundant data or by grouping data.

10. Give the properties of decomposition. (MAY 2019)

Lossless-join decomposition
Dependency preservation
Repetition of information

11. What is 2NF?

A relation schema R is in 2NF if it is in 1NF and every non-prime attribute A in R is fully
functionally dependent on primary key.00

12.Define Domain / key normal form?

It is a normal form used in database normalization which requires that the database
contains no constraints other than domain constraints and key constraints.

13. What are the desirable properties of decomposition? (MAY 2017, Nov 2017)

Lossless join and dependency preserving are the two desirable properties of decomposition.

Lossless join decomposition property:

Let R be the relational schema with instance r is decomposed into R1,R2,….,Rn with
instance r1,r2,…..,rn.
If r1 ⋈ r2 ⋈ ……. ⋈ rn = r , then it is called Lossless Join Decomposition.
i.e. if natural joins of all the decompositions gives the original relation, then it is said to be
Lossless Join Decomposition.

Dependency preserving Property: 4

The second property of decomposition is Dependency
4 Preserving Decomposition.
 If the original table is decomposed into multiple fragments, then somehow, we suppose to
get all original FDs from these fragments. In other words, every dependency in original
table must be preserved or say, every dependency must be satisfied by at least one
decomposed table.

14. What is an entity relationship model?

The entity relationship model is a collection of basic objects called entities and relationship
among those objects. An entity is a thing or object in the real world that is distinguishable from
other objects.

15. What are attributes? Give examples.

An entity is represented by a set of attributes. Attributes are descriptive properties
possessed by each member of an entity set.
Example: possible attributes of customer entity are customer name, customer id,
customer street, customer city.

16. What is relationship? What is meant by the degree of relationship set?

A relationship is an association among several entities.
Example: A depositor relationship associates a customer with each account that he/she has.

The degree of relationship type is the number of participating entity types

17. Define the terms Entity set and Relationship set? (MAY 2019)

Entity set: The set of all entities of the same type is termed as an entity set.
Relationship set: The set of all relationships of the same type is termed as a relationship set.

18. Define single valued and multivalued attributes.

Single valued attributes: attributes with a single value for a particular entity are called
single valued attributes.
Multivalued attributes: Attributes with a set of value for a particular entity are
called multivalued attributes.

19. What are stored and derived attributes?

Stored attributes: The attributes stored in a data base are called stored attributes.
Derived attributes: The attributes that are derived from the stored attributes are called derived
attributes.

20. Define null values.

In some cases a particular entity may not have an applicable value for an attribute or if we
do not know the value of an attribute for a particular entity. In these cases null value is used.

21. Define the terms

i) Entity type
ii) Entity set 4
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iii) Key attribute
iv) Value set

Key attribute: An entity type usually has an attribute whose values are distinct
from each individual entity in the collection. Such an attribute is called a key attribute.
Value set: Each simple attribute of an entity type is associated with a value set
that specifies the set of values that may be assigned to that attribute for each individual
entity.

Entity type: An entity type defines a collection of entities that have the same attributes.
Entity set: The set of all entities of the same type is termed as an entity set.

22. Define weak and strong entity sets?

Weak entity set: entity set that do not have key attribute of their own are called weak entity
sets. Strong entity set: Entity set that has a primary key is termed a strong entity set.

23. What does the cardinality ratio specify?

Mapping cardinalities or cardinality ratios express the number of entities to which another
entity can be associated. Mapping cardinalities must be one of the following:
• One to one
• One to many
• Many to one
• Many to many

24. Explain the two types of participation constraint.

• Total: The participation of an entity set E in a relationship set R is said to be total if every
entity in E participates in at least one relationship in R.
• Partial: if only some entities in E participate in relationships in R, the participation of entity
set E in relationship R is said to be partial.

25. What is the significance of “participation role name” in the description of relationship
types? (Nov 2019)

The Participation role is the part that every entity participates in a relationship. This role is
important to use role name in the depiction of relationship type when the similar entity type
participates more than once in a relationship type in various roles. The role names are necessary
in recursive relationships.

PART - B

1. Construct an E-R diagram for a car insurance company whose customers own one or
more cars each. Each car has associated with it zero to any number of recorded
accidents. Each insurance policy covers one or more cars, and has one or more
premium payments associated with it. Each payment is for a particular period of time
and has an associated due date, and the date when the payment was received? (NOV
2016, NOV 2018)
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 appropriate tables for the above ER Diagram :
Car insurance tables:
person (driver-id, name, address)

car (license, year,model)

accident (report-number, date, location)

participated(driver-id, license, report-number, damage-amount)

2.Discuss the correspondence between the ER model construct and the relational model
constructs. Show how each ER model construct can be mapped to the relational model.
Discuss the option for mapping EER model construct? (MAY 2017), (NOV 2019)

Relational Data Model:

The model uses the concept of a mathematical relation-which looks somewhat like a table of
values-as its basic building block, and has its theoretical basis in set theory and first order
predicate logic.

The relational model represents the database a collection of relations. Each relation resembles
a table of values or, to some extent, a “flat”
4 file of records. When a relation is thought of
as a table of values, each row in the table
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 the relation model, each row in the table represents a fact that typically corresponds to a
real-world entity or relationship. The table name and column names are used to help in
interpreting the meaning of the values in each row. In the formal relational model
terminology, a row is called a tuple, a column header is called an attribute, and the table is
called a relation. The data type describing the types of values that can appear in each
column is represented by domain of possible values.

ER Model:

An entity-relationship model (ERM) is an abstract and conceptual representation of data.

Entity-relationship modeling is a database modeling method, used to produce a type of
conceptual schema or semantic data model of a system, often a relational database, and its
requirements in a top-down fashion. Diagrams created by this process are called entity-
relationship diagrams, ER diagrams, or ERDs.

The first stage of information system design uses these models during the requirements
analysis to describe information needs or the type of information that is to be stored in a
database. In the case of the design of an information system that is based on a database,
the conceptual data model is, at a later stage (usually called logical design), mapped to a
logical data model, such as the relational model; this in turn is mapped to a physical model
during physical design. We create a relational schema from an entity-relationship(ER)
schema.

In the case of the design of an information system that is based on a database, the conceptual
data model is, at a later stage (usually called logical design), mapped to a logical data
model, such as the relational model; this in turn is mapped to a physical model during
physical design. Sometimes, both of these phases are referred to as "physical design". Key
elements of this model are entities, attributes, identifiers and relationships.

Correspondence between ER and Relational Models:

ER Model Relational Model

Entity type “Entity” relation
1:1 or 1:N relationship type Foregin key
M:N relationship type “Relationship” relation and two foreign keys
n ary relationship type “Relationship” relation and n foreign keys
Simple attributes Attributes
Composite attributes Set of simple component attributes
Multivalued attributes Relation and foreign key
Value set Domain
Key attribute Primary key or secondary key

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 Mapping of regular entity types:

For each regular entity type E in the ER schema, create a relation R that includes all the
simple attributes of E. Include only the simple component attributes of a composite
attribute. Choose one of the key attributes of E as primary key for R. If the chosen key of
E is composite, the set of simple attributes that form it will together the primary key of R.

If multiple keys were identified for E during the conceptual design, the information describing
the attributes that form each additional key is kept in order to specify secondary (unique)
keys of relation R. Knowledge about keys is also kept for indexing purpose and other
types of analyses.

We create the relations EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT, and PROJECT in to correspond to the

regular entity types EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT, and PROJECT. The foreign key and
relationship attributes, if any, are not include yet; they will be added during subsequent
steps. These, include the attributes SUPERENO and DNO of EMPLOYEE, MGRNO and
MGRSTARTDATE of DEPARTMENT, and DNUM of PROJECT. We choose ENO,
DNUMBER, and PNUMBER as primary keys for the relations EMPLOYEE,
DEPARTMENT, and PROJECT, respectively. Knowledge that DNAME of
DEPARTMENT and PNAME of PROJCET are secondary keys is kept for possible use
later in the design.

The relation that is created from the mapping of entity types are sometimes called entity
relations because each tuple represents an entity instance.

3.Explain in detail about Functional Dependencies? (NOV 2018)

(OR)
Briefly discuss about the Functional Dependency Concepts? (MAY 2018, Nov 2019)

Functional Dependencies Definition

Functional dependency (FD) is a constraint between two sets of attributes from the

database.

o A functional dependency is a property of the semantics or meaning of the attributes. In every

relation R(A1, A2,…, An) there is a FD called the PK -> A1, A2, …, An Formally the FD is defined
as follows

o If X and Y are two sets of attributes, that are subsets of T

For any two tuples t1 and t2 in r , if t1[X]=t2[X], we must also have t1[Y]=t2[Y].

Notation:

o If the values of Y are determined by the values of X, then it is denoted by X -> Y o

Given the value of one attribute, we can determine the value of another attribute
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Example: Consider the following,

Student Number -> Address, Faculty Number -> Department,

Department Code -> Head of Dept

Functional dependencies allow us to express constraints that cannot be expressed using super
keys. Consider the schema:

Loan-info-schema = (customer-name, loan-number,

branch-name, amount).

We expect this set of functional dependencies to hold:

loan-number amount

loan-number branch-name

but would not expect the following to hold:

loan-number customer-name

Use of Functional Dependencies

We use functional dependencies to:

o test relations to see if they are legal under a given set of functional dependencies.

o If a relation r is legal under a set F of functional dependencies, we say that r satisfies F. o

specify constraints on the set of legal relations

o We say that F holds on R if all legal relations on R satisfy the set of functional dependencies F.

Note: A specific instance of a relation schema may satisfy a functional dependency even if the
functional dependency does not hold on all legal instances.

o For example, a specific instance of Loan-schema may, by chance, satisfy loan-number

customer-name.

Example

Employee

SSN Name JobType DeptName

557-78-6587 Lance Smith Accountant Salary

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214-45-2398 Lance Smith Engineer
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Note: Name is functionally dependent on SSN because an employee‘s name can be uniquely
determined from their SSN. Name does not determine SSN, because more than one employee can
have the same name.

Keys

Whereas a key is a set of attributes that uniquely identifies an entire tuple, a functional
dependency allows us to express constraints that uniquely identify the values of certain

attributes.
However, a candidate key is always a determinant, but a determinant doesn‘t need to be a
key.

Axioms

Before we can determine the closure of the relation, Student, we need a set of rules.

Developed by Armstrong in 1974, there are six rules (axioms) that all possible functional
dependencies may be derived from them.

1. Reflexivity Rule --- If X is a set of attributes and Y is a subset of X, then X Y holds.

each subset of X is functionally dependent on X.

2. Augmentation Rule --- If X Y holds and W is a set of attributes, and then WX WY

holds.

3. Transitivity Rule --- If X Y and Y Z holds, then X Z holds.

Derived Theorems from Axioms

4. Union Rule --- If X Y and X Z holds, then X YZ holds.

5. Decomposition Rule --- If X YZ holds, then so do X Y and X Z.

6. Pseudo transitivity Rule --- If X Y and WY Z hold then so does WX Z.

Back to the Example

SNo SName CNo CName Addr Instr. Office

Based on the rules provided, the following dependencies can be derived.

(SNo, CNo) SNo (Rule 1) -- subset
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CNo office (Rule 3) -- transitivity

SNo (SName, address) (Union Rule) etc.

Properties of FDs
-values always cause the redundancy of Y-values.

FDs are given by DBAs or DB designers.

FDs are enforced/guaranteed by DBMS.

Given an instance r of a relation R, we can only determine that some FD is not satisfied by
R, but can not determine if an FD is satisfied by R.

5,A car rental company maintains a database for all vehicles in its current fleet. For all vehicles, it
includes the vehicle identification number, license number, manufacturer, model, date of
purchase and color. Special data are included for certain types of vehicles.
Trucks: cargo capacity
Sports car: horsepower, renter age requirement
Vans: number of passengers
Off-road vehicle: ground clearance,drivetrain(four or two-wheeler drive)
Construct an ER model for the car rental company database.(NOV 2015)

ER MODEL FOR A CAR RENTAL COMPANY DATABASE

6.State the need for normalization of a Database and Explain the various Normal Forms (1st,
2nd,3rd, BCNF, 4th, 5th and Domain-key) with suitable examples? (JUN 2015, APR 2018)
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Exemplify multivalue dependency and fourth normal 2 form (4NF) and join dependency and fifth
 normal form(5NF) ? (NOV 2019)
(OR)
What is Normalization? Explain in detail about all Normal Forms (MAY 2019, NOV 2014)

Normalization of Database
Database Normalisation is a technique of organizing the data in the database. Normalization is a
systematic approach of decomposing tables to eliminate data redundancy and undesirable
characteristics like Insertion, Update and Deletion Anamolies. It is a multi-step process that puts
data into tabular form by removing duplicated data from the relation tables.
Normalization is used for mainly two purpose,

 Eliminating reduntant(useless) data.

 Ensuring data dependencies make sense i.e data is logically stored.

Problem Without Normalization

Without Normalization, it becomes difficult to handle and update the database, without facing data
loss. Insertion, Updation and Deletion Anamolies are very frequent if Database is not Normalized.
To understand these anomalies let us take an example of Student table.

S_id S_Name S_Address Subject_opted

401 Adam Noida Bio

402 Alex Panipat Maths

403 Stuart Jammu Maths

404 Adam Noida Physics

 Updation Anamoly : To update address of a student who occurs twice or more than twice in
a table, we will have to update S_Address column in all the rows, else data will become
inconsistent.
 Insertion Anamoly : Suppose for a new admission, we have a Student id(S_id), name and
address of a student but if student has not opted for any subjects yet then we have to
insert NULL there, leading to Insertion Anamoly.
 Deletion Anamoly : If (S_id) 401 has only one subject and temporarily he drops it, when we
delete that row, entire student record will be deleted along with it.
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Normalization Rule
Normalization rule are divided into following normal form.

1. First Normal Form

2. Second Normal Form
3. Third Normal Form
4. BCNF

First Normal Form (1NF)

As per First Normal Form, no two Rows of data must contain repeating group of information i.e
each set of column must have a unique value, such that multiple columns cannot be used to fetch the
same row. Each table should be organized into rows, and each row should have a primary key that
distinguishes it as unique.
The Primary key is usually a single column, but sometimes more than one column can be combined
to create a single primary key. For example consider a table which is not in First normal form
Student Table :

Student Age Subject

Adam 15 Biology, Maths

Alex 14 Maths

Stuart 17 Maths

In First Normal Form, any row must not have a column in which more than one value is saved, like
separated with commas. Rather than that, we must separate such data into multiple rows.
Student Table following 1NF will be :

Student Age Subject

Adam 15 Biology

Adam 15 Maths

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Alex 14 Maths

Stuart 17 Maths

Using the First Normal Form, data redundancy increases, as there will be many columns with same
data in multiple rows but each row as a whole will be unique.

Second Normal Form (2NF)

As per the Second Normal Form there must not be any partial dependency of any column on primary
key. It means that for a table that has concatenated primary key, each column in the table that is not
part of the primary key must depend upon the entire concatenated key for its existence. If any
column depends only on one part of the concatenated key, then the table fails Second normal form.
In example of First Normal Form there are two rows for Adam, to include multiple subjects that he
has opted for. While this is searchable, and follows First normal form, it is an inefficient use of
space. Also in the above Table in First Normal Form, while the candidate key is
{Student, Subject}, Age of Student only depends on Student column, which is incorrect as per
Second Normal Form. To achieve second normal form, it would be helpful to split out the subjects
into an independent table, and match them up using the student names as foreign keys.
New Student Table following 2NF will be :

Student Age

Adam 15

Alex 14

Stuart 17

In Student Table the candidate key will be Student column, because all other column i.e Age is
dependent on it.
New Subject Table introduced for 2NF will be :

Student Subject

Adam Biology

Adam Maths
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Alex Maths

Stuart Maths

In Subject Table the candidate key will be {Student, Subject} column. Now, both the above tables
qualifies for Second Normal Form and will never suffer from Update Anomalies. Although there are
a few complex cases in which table in Second Normal Form suffers Update Anomalies, and to
handle those scenarios Third Normal Form is there.

Third Normal Form (3NF)

Third Normal form applies that every non-prime attribute of table must be dependent on primary
key, or we can say that, there should not be the case that a non-prime attribute is determined by
another non-prime attribute. So this transitive functional dependency should be removed from the
table and also the table must be in Second Normal form. For example, consider a table with
following fields.
Student_Detail Table :

Student_id Student_name DOB Street city State Zip

In this table Student_id is Primary key, but street, city and state depends upon Zip. The dependency
between zip and other fields is called transitive dependency. Hence to apply 3NF, we need to move
the street, city and state to new table, with Zip as primary key.
New Student_Detail Table :

Student_id Student_name DOB Zip

Address Table :

Zip Street City state

The advantage of removing transtive dependency is,

 Amount of data duplication is reduced.

 Data integrity achieved.

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Boyce and Codd Normal Form (BCNF)
Boyce and Codd Normal Form is a higher version of the Third Normal form. This form deals with
certain type of anamoly that is not handled by 3NF. A 3NF table which does not have multiple
overlapping candidate keys is said to be in BCNF. For a table to be in BCNF, following conditions
must be satisfied:

 R must be in 3rd Normal Form

 and, for each functional dependency ( X -> Y ), X should be a super Key.

MULTIVALUE DEPENDENCY AND FOURTH NORMAL FORM(4NF):

In the fourth normal form,

 It should meet all the requirement of 3NF

 Attribute of one or more rows in the table should not result in more than one rows of the
same table leading to multi-valued dependencies
To understand it clearly, consider a table with Subject, Lecturer who teaches each subject and
recommended Books for each subject.

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If we observe the data in the table above it satisfies 3NF. But LECTURER and BOOKS are two
independent entities here. There is no relationship between Lecturer and Books. In the above
example, either Alex or Bosco can teach Mathematics. For Mathematics subject , student can refer
either 'Maths Book1' or 'Maths Book2'. i.e.;

SUBJECT --> LECTURER

SUBJECT-->BOOKS

This is a multivalued dependency on SUBJECT. If we need to select both lecturer and books
recommended for any of the subject, it will show up (lecturer, books) combination, which implies
lecturer who recommends which book. This is not correct.

SELECT c.LECTURER, c.BOOKS FROM COURSE c WHERE SUBJECT = 'Mathematics';

To eliminate this dependency, we divide the table into two as below:

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Now if we want to know the lecturer names and books recommended for any of the subject, we will
fire two independent queries. Hence it removes the multi-valued dependency and confusion around
the data. Thus the table is in 4NF.

JOIN DEPENDENCY AND FIFTH NORMAL FORM (5NF):

A database is said to be in 5NF, if and only if,

 It's in 4NF
 If we can decompose table further to eliminate redundancy and anomaly, and when we re-
join the decomposed tables by means of candidate keys, we should not be losing the
original data or any new record set should not arise. In simple words, joining two or more
decomposed table should not lose records nor create new records.

Consider an example of different Subjects taught by different lecturers and the lecturers taking
classes for different semesters.

Note: Please consider that Semester 1 has Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and Semester 2 has
only Mathematics in its academic year!!

In above table, Rose takes both Mathematics and Physics class for Semester 1, but she does not take
Physics class for Semester 2. In this case, combination of all these 3 fields is required to identify a
valid data. Imagine we want to add a new class - Semester3 but do not know which Subject and who
will be taking that subject. We would be simply inserting a new entry with Class as Semester3 and
leaving Lecturer and subject as NULL. As we discussed above, it's not a good to have such entries.
Moreover, all the three columns together act as a primary key, we cannot leave other two columns
blank!

Hence we have to decompose the table in such a way that it satisfies all the rules till 4NF and when
join them by using keys, it should yield correct record. Here, we can represent each lecturer's
Subject area and their classes in a better way. We can divide above table into three - (SUBJECT,
LECTURER), (LECTURER, CLASS), (SUBJECT, CLASS)
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Now, each of combinations is in three different tables. If we need to identify who is teaching which
subject to which semester, we need join the keys of each table and get the result.

For example, who teaches Physics to Semester 1, we would be selecting Physics and Semester1
from table 3 above, join with table1 using Subject to filter out the lecturer names. Then join with
table2 using Lecturer to get correct lecturer name. That is we joined key columns of each table to get
the correct data. Hence there is no lose or new data - satisfying 5NF condition.

7. Draw E-R diagram for the “Restaurant menu ordering system” that will facilitate the food
items ordering and services with in a restaurant. The entire restaurant scenario is detailed as
follows. The customer is able to view the food items menu, call the waiter, place orders and
obtain the final bill through the computer kept in their table. The waiters through their
wireless tablet PC are able to initializw a table for customer, control the table functions to
assist customers, orders, send orders to food preparation staff(chef) and finalize the customers
bill. The food preparation staffs(chefs), with their touch-display interfaces to the system, are
able to view orders sent to the kitchen by waiters. During preparation, they are able to let the
waiter know the status of each item and can send notifications when items are completed. The
system should have full accountability and logging facilities and should support supervisor
actions to account for exceptional circumstances such as meal being refunded or walked out
on? (May 2015).

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8.Explain first normal form, second normal form, third normal form and BCNF with an
example? (NOV 2016, Nov 2019)
1st Normal Form:

The Requirements:
The requirements to satisfy the 1st NF:

Each table has a primary key: minimal set of attributes which can uniquely identify a

record

The values in each column of a table are atomic (No multi-value attributes allowed).
There are no repeating groups: two columns do not store similar information in the same table

1st Normal Form

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Example 1:
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Un-normalized Students table:

Student# AdvID AdvName AdvRoom Class1 Class2

123 123A James 555 102-8 104-9

124 123B Smith 467 209-0 102-8

Normalized Students table:

Student# AdvID AdvName AdvRoom Class#

123 123A James 555 102-8

123 123A James 555 104-9

124 123B Smith 467 209-0

124 123B Smith 467 102-8

Example 2:

Title Author1 Author2 ISBN Subject Pages Publisher

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Database Abraham Henry F. 0072958863 MySQL, 1168 McGraw-
System Silberschatz Korth Computers Hill
Concepts

Operating Abraham Henry F. 0471694665 Computers 944 McGraw-

System Silberschatz Korth Hill
Concepts

Table 1 problems
This table is not very efficient with storage.

This design does not protect data integrity.

Third, this table does not scale well.

In our Table 1, we have two violations of First Normal Form:

First, we have more than one author field,

Second, our subject field contains more than one piece of information. With more
than one value in a single field, it would be very difficult to search for all books on a given
subject.

Table 2

Title Author ISBN Subject Pages Publisher

Database System Abraham 0072958863 MySQL 1168 McGraw-Hill

Concepts Silberschatz

Database System Henry F. 0072958863 Computers 1168 McGraw-Hill

Concepts Korth

Operating System Henry F. 0471694665 Computers 944 McGraw-Hill

Concepts Korth

Operating System Abraham 0471694665 Computers 944 McGraw-Hill

Concepts Silberschatz

We now have two rows for a single book. Additionally, we would be violating the

Second Normal Form… 6

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 A better solution to our problem would be to separate the data into separate tables- an Author table
and a Subject table to store our information, removing that information from the

Book table:

Each table has a primary key, used for joining tables together when querying the data. A primary
key value must be unique with in the table (no two books can have the same ISBN

number), and a primary key is also an index, which speeds up data retrieval based on the primary key.
Now to define relationships between the tables

Second Normal Form (2NF)

• a form is in 2NF if and only if it is in 1NF and has no attributes which require only part of the key to
uniquely identify them

• To do - remove part-key dependencies:

• where a key has more than one attribute, check that each non-key attribute depends on the whole
key and not part of the key.

• for each subset of the key which determines an attribute or group of attributes create a new form.
Move the dependant attributes to the new form..

• Add the part key to new form, making it the primary key.

• Mark the part key as a foreign key in the original form.

• Result: 2NF forms

If each attribute A in a relation schema R meets one of the following criteria:

It must be in first normal form.

It is not partially dependent on a candidate key.

Every non-key attribute is fully dependent on each candidate key of the relation.

Second Normal Form (or 2NF) deals with redundancy of data in vertical columns.

Example of Second Normal Form:

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Here is a list of attributes in a table that is in First Normal Form:

Department

Project_Name

Employee_Name

Emp_Hire_Date

Project_Manager

Project_Name and Employee_Name are the candidate key for this table. Emp_Hire_Date and
Project_Manager are partially depend on the Employee_Name, but not depend on the Project_Name.
Therefore, this table will not satisfy the Second Normal Form

In order to satisfy the Second Normal Form, we need to put the Emp_Hire_Date and Project_Manager to
other tables. We can put the Emp_Hire_Date to the Employee table and put the Project_Manager to the
Project table.

So now we have three tables:

Department Project

Project_Name Project_ID

Employee_Name Project_Name

Project_Manager

Employee

Employee_ID

Employee_Name

Employee_Hire_Date

Now, the Department table will only have the candidate key left.

Third Normal Form

A relation R is in Third Normal Form (3NF) if and only if it is:

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 in Second Normal Form.

Every non-key attribute is non-transitively dependent on the primary key.

An attribute C is transitively dependent on attribute A if there exists an attribute B such that A B and B
C, then A C.

Example of Third Normal Form:

Here is the Second Normal Form of the table for the invoice table:

It violates the Third Normal Form because there will be redundancy for having multiple invoice
number for the same customer. In this example, Jones had both invoice 1001 and 1003.

To solve the problem, we will have to have another table for the Customers

By having Customer table, there will be no transitive relationship between the invoice number and
the customer name and address. Also, there will not be redundancy on the customer information

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Boyce-Codd Normal Form:

• A relation is in Boyce-Codd normal

• B is contained in A (the FD is trivial), or

• A contains a candidate key of the relation,

• In other words: every determinant in a non-trivial dependency is a (super) key.

• The same as 3NF except in 3NF we only worry about non-key Bs

• If there is only one candidate key then 3NF and BCNF are the same

Stream and BCNF

• -trivial and {Time} does not

contain a candidate key

Conversion to BCNF

Stream has been put into BCNF but we have lost the FD {Student, Course} {Time}

Decomposition Properties

• Lossless: Data should not be lost or created when splitting relations up

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• Dependency preservation: It is desirable that FDs are preserved when splitting relations

up

• Normalisation to 3NF is always lossless and dependency preserving

• Normalisation to BCNF is lossless, but may not preserve all dependencies

Converting to BCNF

1) The determinant, Offering#, becomes part of the key and the dependant attribute T_Code, becomes
a non key attribute. So the Dependency diagram is now

S_Num, Offering#

2) There are problems with this structure as T_Code is now dependant on only part of the key. This
violates the rules for 2NF, so the table needs to be divided with the partial dependency becoming
a new table. The dependencies would then be

3) The original table is divided into two new tables. Each is in 3NF and in BCNF.

Student Review:

S_num Offering# Review Date

123599 01764 2nd march

123599 01765 12th april

123599 01789 2nd may

246700 01764 3rd march

346700 01765 7th may

OfferingTeacher:

Offering# T_code#

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 01764 FIT104

01765 PIT305

01789 PIT107

Note that even relations in BCNF can have anomalies.

Anomalies:

INSERT: We cannot record the city for a supplier_no without also knowing the supplier_name

DELETE: If we delete the row for a given supplier_name, we lose the information that the supplier_no is
associated with a given city.

UPDATE: Since supplier_name is a candidate key (unique), there are none.

9. Design and draw an E-R diagram for university database? (Nov 2019)

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10. Explain with suitable example, the constraints of specialization and generalization in ER data
modeling.(Nov 2019).

The ER Model has the power of expressing database entities in a conceptual hierarchical manner. As the
hierarchy goes up, it generalizes the view of entities, and as we go deep in the hierarchy, it gives us the
detail of every entity included.
Going up in this structure is called generalization, where entities are clubbed together to represent a more
generalized view. For example, a particular student named Mira can be generalized along with all the
students. The entity shall be a student, and further, the student is a person. The reverse is
called specialization where a person is a student, and that student is Mira.
Generalization:
As mentioned above, the process of generalizing entities, where the generalized entities contain the
properties of all the generalized entities, is called generalization. In generalization, a number of entities are
brought together into one generalized entity based on their similar characteristics. For example, pigeon,
house sparrow, crow and dove can all be generalized as Birds.

Specialization:
Specialization is the opposite of generalization. In specialization, a group of entities is divided into sub-
groups based on their characteristics. Take a group ‘Person’ for example. A person has name, date of birth,
gender, etc. These properties are common in all persons, human beings. But in a company, persons can be
identified as employee, employer, customer, or vendor, based on what role they play in the company.

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Similarly, in a school database, persons can be specialized as teacher, student, or a staff, based on what
role they play in school as entities.
Inheritance :
We use all the above features of ER-Model in order to create classes of objects in object-oriented
programming. The details of entities are generally hidden from the user; this process known
as abstraction.
Inheritance is an important feature of Generalization and Specialization. It allows lower-level entities to
inherit the attributes of higher-level entities.

For example, the attributes of a Person class such as name, age, and gender can be
inherited by lower-level entities such as Student or Teacher.

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 UNIT- 3

TRANSACTIONS

PART-A

1. What is transaction?
Collections of operations that form a single logical unit of work are called transactions.

2. What are the two statements regarding transaction?

The two statements regarding transaction of the form:
Begin transaction
End transaction

3. What are the properties of transaction? (Nov’2014, May’2015 & May 2016)
(OR)
What are ACID Properties?(Dec 2017)

The properties of transactions are:

Atomicity: Either all operations of the transaction are properly reflected in the database
or none are.
Consistency: Execution of a transaction in isolation preserves the consistency of the
database.
Isolation: Although multiple transactions may execute concurrently, each transaction
must be unaware of other concurrently executing transactions. Intermediate transaction
results must be hidden from other concurrently executed transactions. That is, for every
pair of transactions Ti and Tj, it appears to Ti that either Tj finished execution before Ti
started, or Tj started execution after Ti finished.
Durability: After a transaction completes successfully, the changes it has made to the
database persist,
even if there are system failures.

4. Highlight the role of recovery management component?(Dec 2018)

Ensuring durability is the responsibility of a software component of the base
system called the recovery management component.

5. When is a transaction rolled back?

Any changes that the aborted transaction made to the database must be undone. Once
the changes caused by an aborted transaction have been undone, then the transaction has been
rolled back.
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6. What are the states of transaction? (May 2019)
The states of transaction are
Active - Reading and Writing data items, if something wrong happens during reading and
writing aborts to Failed.
Partially Committed - All reading and writing operations are done aborts to Failed when
rollback occurs or committed when commit occurs.

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 Committed - Transaction successfully completed and all write operations made
permanent in the database.

Failed - Transaction halted and all operations rolled back

Terminated - terminates either commits or failed

7. What is a shadow copy scheme?

It is simple, but efficient, scheme called the shadow copy schemes. It is based on
making copies of the database called shadow copies that one transaction is active at a
time. The scheme also assumes that the database is simply a file on disk.

8. Give the reasons for allowing concurrency?

The reasons for allowing concurrency is if the transactions run serially, a short
transaction may have to wait for a preceding long transaction to complete, which can
lead to unpredictable delays in running a transaction. So concurrent execution reduces
the unpredictable delays in running transactions.

9. What is average response time?

The average response time is that the average time for a transaction to be completed
after it has been submitted.

10. What are the two types of Serializability?

The two types of Serializability is
 Conflict serializability
 View serializability

11. Define lock?

Lock is the most common used to implement the requirement is to allow a
transaction to access a data item only if it is currently holding a lock on that item.

12. What are the different modes of lock?

The modes of lock are:
Exclusive
Shared

13. Define deadlock?

Neither of the transaction can ever proceed with its normal execution. This
situation is called deadlock.

14. Define the phases of two phase locking protocol.

Growing phase: a transaction may obtain locks but not release any lock.
Shrinking phase: a transaction may release locks but may not obtain any new locks.

15. Define upgrade and downgrade?

It provides a mechanism for conversion from shared lock to exclusive lock is known
as upgrade.

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 It provides a mechanism for conversion from exclusive lock to shared lock is known as
downgrade.

16. What is a database graph?

The partial ordering implies that the set D may now be viewed as a directed acyclic
graph, called a database graph.

17. What are the two methods for dealing deadlock problem?
The two methods for dealing deadlock problem is deadlock detection and deadlock
recovery.

18. What is a recovery scheme?

An integral part of a database system is a recovery scheme that can restore the
database to the consistent state that existed before the failure.

19. What are the two types of errors?

The two types of errors are:
Logical error
System error

20. What are the storage types?

The storage types are:
Volatile storage
Nonvolatile storage

21. Define blocks?

The database system resides permanently on nonvolatile storage, and is
partitioned into fixed-length storage units called blocks.

22. What is meant by Physical blocks?

The input and output operations are done in block units. The blocks residing on
the disk are referred to as physical blocks.

23. What is meant by buffer blocks?

The blocks residing temporarily in main memory are referred to as buffer blocks.

24. What is meant by disk buffer?

The area of memory where blocks reside temporarily is called the disk buffer.

25. What is meant by log-based recovery scheme? (May 2019)

The most widely used structures for recording database modifications is the log.
The log is a sequence of log records, recording all the update activities in the database.
There are several types of log records.

26. What are uncommitted modifications?

The immediate-modification technique allows database modifications to be output to

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active transactions are called uncommitted modifications.

27. Define shadow paging.

An alternative to log-based crash recovery technique is shadow paging. This
technique needs fewer disk accesses than do the log-based methods.

28. Define page.

The database is partitioned into some number of fixed-length blocks, which are
referred to as pages.

29. Explain current page table and shadow page table.

The key idea behind the shadow paging technique is to maintain two page tables
during the life of the transaction: the current page table and the shadow page table. Both
the page tables are identical when the transaction starts. The current page table may
be changed when a transaction performs a write operation.

30. Give the drawbacks of shadow-paging technique? (Dec 2018)

The drawbacks of shadow-paging technique are
• Commit Overhead
• Data fragmentation
• Garbage collection

31. Define garbage collection.

Garbage may be created also as a side effect of crashes. Periodically, it is necessary to
find all the garbage pages and to add them to the list of free pages. This process is called
garbage collection.

32. Differentiate strict two phase locking protocol and rigorous two phase locking
protocol. (May/June 2016)
In strict two phase locking protocol all exclusive mode locks taken by a
transaction is held until that transaction commits.
Rigorous two phase locking protocol requires that all locks be held until the
transaction commits.

33. How the time stamps are implemented?

• Use the value of the system clock as the time stamp. That is a transaction’s time
stamp is equal to the value of the clock when the transaction enters the system.
• Use a logical counter that is incremented after a new timestamp has been assigned; that
is the time stamp is equal to the value of the counter.

34. What are the time stamps associated with each data item?
• W-timestamp (Q) denotes the largest time stamp if any transaction that
executed WRITE (Q) successfully.
• R-timestamp (Q) denotes the largest time stamp if any transaction that executed READ
(Q) successfully.

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35. What is Serializability? How is it tested? (May 2014, Nov’2014, Nov’2016, &May 2018)
A (possibly concurrent) schedule is serializable if it is equivalent to a serial schedule.
Precedence graph is used to test the serializability.

36. What is meant by Concurrency control? (Dec’2015)

A transaction is a particular execution of the program. When multiple transactions are
trying to access the same shareable resource, many problems arise if the access control is not
done properly. Mechanisms to which access control can be maintained is called Concurrency
control.

37. Give an example for Two phase commit protocol. (Dec’2015)

Client want all or nothing transactions and Transfer either happens or nothing at all.

38. What is meant by garbage collection.(May/June 2016)

Garbage may be created also as a side effect of crashes. Periodically, it is necessary to
find all the garbage pages and to add them to the list of free pages. This process is called
garbage collection.

39. State the need for concurrency? (Dec 2017)

Following are the purposes of concurrency control:

 To ensure isolation
 To resolve read-write or write-write conflicts and
 To preserve consistency of database

40. What is serializable schedule? (May 2017)

The schedule in which the transactions execute one after the other is called Serial Schedule. It is
consistent in nature. For Example: Consider two transactions T1 and T2. All operations in T1 is
executed after that all transactions in T2 are executed.

41. What type of lock is needed for insert and delete operations? (May 2017)

The exclusive lock is needed to insert and delete operations.

42. What is the difference between shared lock and exclusive lock? (May 2018)

Shared Lock Exclusive Lock

Shared Lock is used for when the transaction Exclusive Lock is used for when the transaction
wants to perform read operation. wants to perform both read and write operation.
Multiple Shared lock can be set on a transactions Only one exclusive lock can be placed on a data
simultaneously. item at a time.
Using shared lock data item can be viewed. Using exclusive lock data can be inserted or
deleted.

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 43. What is rigorous two phase locking protocol? (Dec 2013)

This is stricter two phase locking protocol . Here all locks are to be held until the transaction commits.

44. List the four conditions for deadlock.(Dec 2016)

There are four mandatory conditions that must exist simultaneously for a deadlock to
occur:
Mutual Exclusion: Some data items must be locked by some transactions in Exclusive
Mode. These data items are not accessible to other transactions than the one currently
holding it.
Hold and Wait: Some Transactions must be holding Exclusive Locks on some Data Items
and at the same time waiting for grant of Exclusive Lock on some other data items, which
may be currently locked by other transactions.
No Preemption: The data items locked exclusively by a Transaction cannot be forcibly pre-
empted. The Transaction will release the locks on such items only voluntarily, when it has
finished with the data items.
Cyclic Wait: There must exist a situation, where in a set of n transactions say {T0, T1, Tn-
1} are waiting in a cyclic manner for the data items locked by each other i.e.,
T0 is waiting for some data item currently locked by T1
T1 is waiting for some data item currently locked by T2
T2 is waiting for some data item currently locked by T3
.
.
.
Tn-2 is waiting for some data item currently locked by Tn-1
Tn-1 is waiting for some data item currently locked by T0

45.List the responsibilities of a DBMS has whenever a transaction is submitted to the system for execution?
(Nov 2019)

Begin the transaction. Execute a set of data manipulations and/or queries. If no errors occur then commit
the transaction and end it. If errors occur then roll back the transaction and end it.

46.Brief any two violations that may occur if a transaction executes a lower isolation level than
serializable? (Nov 2019)

 Lost updates.
 Dirty read (or uncommitted data).
 Unrepeatable read (or inconsistent retrievals).

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 PART-B

1. Briefly explain about Two phase commit and three phase commit protocols. (Nov’ 2014,
May 2015 & May 2016)
(OR)
Explain two phase commit protocol with an example?

Two phase commit protocol

• Assumes fail-stop model – failed sites simply stop working, and do not cause any other
harm,
such as sending incorrect messages to other sites.
• Execution of the protocol is initiated by the coordinator after the last step of the
transaction has been reached.
• The protocol involves all the local sites at which the transaction executed
• Let T be a transaction initiated at site Si, and let the transaction coordinator at Si be Ci.

Phase 1: Obtaining a Decision (prepare)

• Coordinator asks all participants to prepare to commit transaction Ti.
– Ci adds the records <prepare T> to the log and forces log to stable storage
– sends prepare T messages to all sites at which T executed
• Upon receiving message, transaction manager at site determines if it can commit the
transaction
– if not, add a record <no T> to the log and send abort T message to Ci
– if the transaction can be committed, then:
– add the record <ready T> to the log
– force all records for T to stable storage
– send ready T message to Ci

Phase 2: Recording the Decision (commit)

• T can be committed of Ci received a ready T message from all the participating sites:
otherwise T must be aborted.
• Coordinator adds a decision record, <commit T> or <abort T>, to the log and forces
record onto stable storage. Once the record stable storage it is irrevocable (even if failures
occur)
• Coordinator sends a message to each participant informing it of the decision (commit or
abort)
• Participants take appropriate action locally.

Possible Failures
Site Failure
Coordinator Failure
Network Partition

Three phase commit protocols.

Assumptions:
– No network partitioning
– At any point, at least one site must be up.
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– At most K sites (participants as well as coordinator) can fail
Phase 1: Obtaining Preliminary Decision: Identical to 2PC Phase 1.
– Every site is ready to commit if instructed to do so
– Under 2PC each site is obligated to wait for decision from coordinator
– Under 3PC, knowledge of pre-commit decision can be used to commit despite
coordinator failure

Phase 2: Recording the Preliminary Decision

Coordinator adds a decision record (<abort T> or <precommit T>) in its log and forces
record to stable storage. Coordinator sends a message to each participant informing it of
the decision.

Participant records decision in its log

– If abort decision reached then participant aborts locally
– If pre-commit decision reached then participant replies with
<acknowledge T>

Phase 3: Recording Decision in the Database

Executed only if decision in phase 2 was to pre commit
Coordinator collects acknowledgments. It sends <commit T> message to the participants
as soon as it receives K acknowledgments.
Coordinator adds the record <commit T> in its log and forces record to stable storage.
Coordinator sends a message to each participant to <commit T>.
Participants take appropriate action locally
Under 3PC, knowledge of pre-commit decision can be used to commit despite
coordinator failure
 Avoids blocking problem as long as < K sites fail

Drawbacks:
 higher overheads
 Assumptions may not be satisfied in practice.

2. What is serializability? Explain its types? (Nov/Dec 2015)

(OR)
Explain conflict serializability and view serializability? (May 2018)
(OR)
Discuss in detail about the testing of serializability? (May 2019)
A (possibly concurrent) schedule is serializable, if it is equivalent to a serial
schedule. Different forms of schedule equivalence give rise to the notions of:

1. Conflict serializability
2. View serializability

1. Conflict serializability
Instructions li and lj of transactions Ti and Tj respectively, conflict if and only if there
exists some item Q accessed by both li and lj, and at least one of these instructions wrote
Q.
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1. li = read(Q), lj = read(Q).li and lj don’t conflict.
2. li = read(Q), lj = write(Q). They conflict.

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 3. li = write(Q), lj = read(Q). They conflict
4. li = write(Q), lj = write(Q). They conflict
• If a schedule S can be transformed into a schedule S´ by a series of swaps of non-
conflicting instructions, we say that S and S´ are conflict equivalent.
• We say that a schedule S is conflict serializable if it is conflict equivalent to a serial
schedule

2. View serializability
Let S and S´ be two schedules with the same set of transactions. S and S´ are view
equivalent if the following three conditions are met, for each data item Q,

• If in schedule S, transaction Ti reads the initial value of Q, then in schedule S’ also

transaction Ti must read the initial value of Q.
• If in schedule S transaction Ti executes read(Q), and that value was produced by
transaction Tj (if any), then in schedule S’ also transaction Ti must read the value
of Q that was produced by the same write(Q) operation of transaction Tj .
• The transaction (if any) that performs the final write(Q) operation in schedule S
must also perform the final write(Q) operation in schedule S’.

3. Brief the states of a transaction with a neat diagram.(Nov 2019)

(OR)
List all possible sequences of states through which a transaction may pass? Explain why each
state transition may occur? (May 2018)
Explain with an example the properties that must be satisfied by a transaction? (May 2018,
May 2019, Nov 2019)

The states of transaction are

 Active - Reading and Writing data items, if something wrong happens during reading and
writing aborts to Failed.

 Partially Committed - All reading and writing operations are done aborts to Failed when
rollback occurs or committed when commit occurs.

 Committed - Transaction successfully completed and all write operations made

permanent in the database.
 Failed - Transaction halted and all operations rolled back

 Terminated - terminates either commits or failed

The properties of transactions are:

• Atomicity: Either all operations of the transaction are properly reflected in the database
or none are.

• Consistency: Execution of a transaction in isolation preserves the consistency of the

database.

• Isolation: Although multiple transactions may execute concurrently, each transaction

must be unaware of other concurrently executing transactions. Intermediate transaction
results must be hidden from other concurrently executed transactions. That is, for every
pair of transactions Ti and Tj, it appears to Ti that either Tj finished execution before Ti
started, or Tj started execution after Ti finished.

• Durability: After a transaction completes successfully, the changes it has made to the
database persist, even if there are system failures.

4. Explain the concepts of concurrent execution in Transaction processing system.

(Nov/Dec 2014)

The transaction-processing system allows concurrent execution of multiple transactions

to improve the system performance. In concurrent execution, the database management
system controls the execution of two or more transactions in parallel; however, allows only
one operation of any transaction to occur at any given time within the system. This is also
known as interleaved execution of multiple transactions. The database system allows
concurrent execution of transactions due to two reasons.

First, a transaction performing read or write operation using I/O devices may not be using
the CPU at a particular point of time. Thus, while one transaction is performing I/O
operations, the CPU can process another transaction. This is possible because CPU and I/O
system in the computer system are capable of operating in parallel. This overlapping of I/O
and CPU activities reduces the amount of time for which the disks and processors are idle
and, thus, increases the throughput of the system (the number of transactions executed in a
given amount of time).

5. Why concurrency control is needed? Explain with an example.

(OR)
What is Concurrency control? (May 2018)

Concurrency control is the process of managing simultaneous execution of transactions

(such as queries, updates, inserts, deletes and so on) in a multiprocessing database system
without having them interfere with one another.

This property of DBMS allows many transactions to access the same database at the same
time without interfering with each other.
The primary goal of concurrency is to ensure the atomicity of the execution of transactions
 in a multi-user database environment. Concurrency controls mechanisms attempt to
interleave (parallel) READ and WRITE operations of multiple transactions so that the
interleaved execution yields results that are identical to the results of a serial schedule
execution.

Problems of Concurrency Control :

When concurrent transactions are executed in an uncontrolled manner, several problems can
occur.
The concurrency control has the following three main problems:
 Lost updates.
 Dirty read (or uncommitted data).
 Unrepeatable read (or inconsistent retrievals).

Lost Update Problem:

A lost update problem occurs when two transactions that access the same database items have
their operations in a way that makes the value of some database item incorrect.

In other words, if transactions T1 and T2 both read a record and then update it, the effects of the
first update will be overwritten by the second update.

Example:

Consider the situation given in figure that shows operations performed by two transactions,
Transaction- A and Transaction- B with respect to time.

Transaction- A Time Transaction- B

----- t0 ----

Read X t1 ----

---- t2 Read X

Update X t3 ----

---- t4 Update X

---- t5 ----

At time t1, Transactions-A reads value of X.

At time t2, Transactions-B reads value of X.
At time t3, Transactions-A writes value of X on the basis of the value seen at time t1.
At time t4, Transactions-B writes value of X on the basis of the value seen at time t2.
So, update of Transactions-A is lost at time t4, because Transactions-B overwrites it without
looking at its current value. Such type of problem is referred as the Update Lost Problem, as
update made by one transaction is lost here.

Dirty Read Problem:

A dirty read problem occurs when one transaction updates a database item and then the
transaction fails for some reason. The updated database item is accessed by another transaction
before it is changed back to the original value. In other words, a transaction T1 updates a record,
which is read by the transaction T2.

Then T1 aborts and T2 now has values which have never formed part of the stable database.

Example:

Consider the situation given in figure:

Transaction- A Time Transaction- B

---- t0 ----

---- t1 Update X

Read X t2 ----

---- t3 Rollback

---- t4 ----

At time t1, Transactions-B writes value of X.

At time t2, Transactions-A reads value of X.
At time t3, Transactions-B rollbacks. So, it changes the value of X back to that of prior to t1.
So, Transaction-A now has value which has never become part of the stable database. Such
type of problem is referred as the Dirty Read Problem, as one transaction reads a dirty value
which has not been committed
.
Inconsistent Retrievals Problem:

Unrepeatable read (or inconsistent retrievals) occurs when a transaction calculates some
summary (aggregate) function over a set of data while other transactions are updating the data.

The problem is that the transaction might read some data before they are changed and other data
after they are changed, thereby yielding inconsistent results.

In an unrepeatable read, the transaction T1 reads a record and then does some other processing
during which the transaction T2 updates the record. Now, if T1 rereads the record, the new value
will be inconsistent with the previous value.

Example:

Consider the situation given in figure that shows two transactions operating on three accounts:

Account-1 Account-2 Account-3

Balance = 200 Balance = 250 Balance = 150

Transaction- A Time Transaction- B

----- t0 ----

Read Balance of Acc-1 t1 ----

sum <-- 200
Read Balance of Acc-2

Sum <-- Sum + 250 = 450 t2 ----

---- t3 Read Balance of Acc-3

---- t4 Update Balance of Acc-3

150 --> 150 - 50 --> 100

---- t5 Read Balance of Acc-1

---- t6 Update Balance of Acc-1

200 --> 200 + 50 --> 250

---- t7 COMMIT
Read Balance of Acc-3

Sum <-- Sum + 250 = 450 t8 ----

Transaction-A is summing all balances; while, Transaction-B is transferring an amount 50

from Account-3 to Account-1.
Here, the result produced by Transaction-A is 550, which is incorrect. if this result is written
in database, database will be in inconsistent state, as actual sum is 600.
Here, Transaction-A has seen an inconsistent state of database, and has performed inconsistent
analysis.
6. What is deadlock? How does it occur? How transactions be written to (i) Avoid
deadlock (ii) guarantee correct execution. Illustrate with suitable example. (Nov’ 2014
Nov’2015 & Nov’2016)
(OR)
Explain the methods used to handle Deadlock? (Dec 2018)
(OR)
When does deadlock occurs? (Dec 2017, Nov 2019)

Deadlock

System is deadlocked if there is a set of transactions such that every transaction in the set is
waiting for another transaction in the set.

• Consider the following two transactions:

T1: write (A) T2: write(A)
write(B) write(B)
• Schedule with deadlock

Avoid deadlock:

Deadlock prevention protocol

Ensure that the system will never enter into a deadlock state.

Some prevention strategies:

Approach1
– Require that each transaction locks all its data items before it begins execution
either all are locked in one step or none are locked.
– Disadvantages
• Hard to predict, before transaction begins, what data item need to be
locked.
• Data item utilization may be very low.
Approch2
– Assign a unique timestamp to each transaction.
– These timestamps only to decide whether a transaction should wait or rollback.

Schemes:
1. Wait-die scheme
2. Wound-wait scheme
Wait-die scheme
– non preemptive technique
– When transaction Ti request a data item currently held by Tj, Ti is allowed to wait
only if it has a timestamp smaller than that of Tj. otherwise ,Ti rolled back(dies)
– older transaction may wait for younger one to release data item. Younger
transactions never wait for older ones; they are rolled back instead.
 – A transaction may die several times before acquiring needed data item
Example.
• Transaction T1,T2,T3 have time stamps 5,10,15,respectively.
• if T 1 requests a data item held by T2,then T1 will wait.
 • If T3 request a data item held by T2,then T3 will be rolled back

Wound-wait scheme
- Preemptive technique
- When transaction Ti requests a data item currently held by Tj,Ti is allowed to wait
only if it has a timestamp larger than that of Tj. Otherwise Tj is rolled back
- Older transaction wounds (forces rollback) of younger transaction instead of
waiting for it. Younger transactions may wait for older ones.
Example
• Transaction T1, T2, T3 have time stamps 5, 10, 15 respectively.
• if T1 requests a data item held by T2,then the data item will be preempted from
T2,and T2 will be rolled back.
• If T3 requests a data item held by T2, then T3 will wait.

7. Explain about dead lock recovery algorithm with an example.(Nov 2019)

The common solution is to roll back one or more transactions to break the deadlock.
Three action need to be taken
a. Selection of victim
b. Rollback
c. Starvation

Selection of victim
i. Set of deadlocked transations,must determine which transaction to roll back to
break the deadlock.
ii. Consider the factor minimum cost

Rollback
- once we decided that a particular transaction must be rolled back, must determine how
far this transaction should be rolled back
- Total rollback
- Partial rollback

Starvation
Ensure that a transaction can be picked as victim only a finite number of times.

8. Illustrate Granularity locking method in concurrency control.

Lock Granularity:
A database is basically represented as a collection of named data items. The size of the data item
chosen as the unit of protection by a concurrency control program is called GRANULARITY.
Locking can take place at the following level:

 Database level.
 Table level.
 Page level.
 Row (Tuple) level.
 Attributes (fields) level.

i. Database level Locking:

At database level locking, the entire database is locked. Thus, it prevents the use of any
tables in the database by transaction T2 while transaction T1 is being executed. Database level
of locking is suitable for batch processes. Being very slow, it is unsuitable for on-line multi-user
DBMSs.

ii. Table level Locking :

At table level locking, the entire table is locked. Thus, it prevents the access to any row
(tuple) by transaction T2 while transaction T1 is using the table. if a transaction requires access
to several tables, each table may be locked. However, two transactions can access the same
database as long as they access different tables. Table level locking is less restrictive than
database level. Table level locks are not suitable for multi-user DBMS

iii. Page level Locking:

At page level locking, the entire disk-page (or disk-block) is locked. A page has a fixed
size such as 4 K, 8 K, 16 K, and 32 K so on. A table can span several pages, and a page can
contain several rows (tuples) of one or more tables. Page level of locking is most suitable for
multi-user DBMSs.

iv. Row (Tuple) level Locking:

At row level locking, particular row (or tuple) is locked. A lock exists for each row in
each table of the database. The DBMS allows concurrent transactions to access different rows of
the same table, even if the rows are located on the same page. The row level lock is much less
restrictive than database level, table level, or page level locks. The row level locking improves
the availability of data. However, the management of row level locking requires high overhead
cost.

v. Attributes (fields) level Locking:

At attribute level locking, particular attribute (or field) is locked. Attribute level locking
allows concurrent transactions to access the same row, as long as they require the use of different
attributes within the row. The attribute level lock yields the most flexible multi-user data access.
It requires a high level of computer overhead.
9. Describe Database Recovery concepts.
(OR)
Explain deferred and immediate modification versions of the log based recovery scheme? (May
2019)

Crash Recovery

Though we are living in highly technologically advanced era where hundreds of satellite
monitor the earth and at every second billions of people are connected through
information technology, failure is expected but not every time acceptable.

DBMS is highly complex system with hundreds of transactions being executed every
second. Availability of DBMS depends on its complex architecture and underlying
hardware or system software. If it fails or crashes amid transactions being executed, it is
expected that the system would follow some sort of algorithm or techniques to recover
from crashes or failures.

Failure Classification

To see where the problem has occurred we generalize the failure into various categories,
as follows:

TRANSACTION FAILURE

When a transaction is failed to execute or it reaches a point after which it cannot be

completed successfully it has to abort. This is called transaction failure. Where only few
transaction or process are hurt.

Reason for transaction failure could be:

 Logical errors: where a transaction cannot complete because of it has some code error
or any internal error condition

 System errors: where the database system itself terminates an active transaction
because DBMS is not able to execute it or it has to stop because of some system
condition. For example, in case of deadlock or resource unavailability systems aborts
an active transaction.

SYSTEM CRASH

There are problems, which are external to the system, which may cause the system to
stop abruptly and cause the system to crash. For example interruption in power supply,
failure of underlying hardware or software failure.
Examples may include operating system errors.
 DISK FAILURE:

In early days of technology evolution, it was a common problem where hard disk drives
or storage drives used to fail frequently.
Disk failures include formation of bad sectors, unreachability to the disk, disk head
crash or any other failure, which destroys all or part of disk storage.

Storage Structure

We have already described storage system here. In brief, the storage structure can be
divided in various categories:

 Volatile storage: As name suggests, this storage does not survive system crashes
and mostly placed very closed to CPU by embedding them onto the chipset itself
for examples: main memory, cache memory. They are fast but can store a small
amount of information.

 Nonvolatile storage: These memories are made to survive system crashes. They
are huge in data storage capacity but slower in accessibility. Examples may include,
hard disks, magnetic tapes, flash memory, non-volatile (battery backed up) RAM.

Recovery and Atomicity

When a system crashes, it many have several transactions being executed and various
files opened for them to modifying data items. As we know that transactions are made
of various operations, which are atomic in nature. But according to ACID properties of
DBMS, atomicity of transactions as a whole must be maintained that is, either all
operations are executed or none.

When DBMS recovers from a crash it should maintain the following:

 It should check the states of all transactions, which were being executed.
 A transaction may be in the middle of some operation; DBMS must ensure the
atomicity of transaction in this case.
 It should check whether the transaction can be completed now or needs to be rolled
back.
 No transactions would be allowed to left DBMS in inconsistent state.
 There are two types of techniques, which can help DBMS in recovering as well as
maintaining the atomicity of transaction:
 Maintaining the logs of each transaction, and writing them onto some stable storage
before actually modifying the database.
 Maintaining shadow paging, where are the changes are done on a volatile memory
and later the actual database is updated.
Log-Based Recovery

Log is a sequence of records, which maintains the records of actions performed by a

transaction. It is important that the logs are written prior to actual modification and
stored on a stable storage media, which is failsafe.

Log based recovery works as follows:

 The log file is kept on stable storage media

 When a transaction enters the system and starts execution, it writes a log about it
<Tn, Start>
 When the transaction modifies an item X, it write logs as follows:
<Tn, X, V1, V2>
 It reads Tn has changed the value of X, from V1 to V2.
 When transaction finishes, it logs:
<Tn, commit>

Database can be modified using two approaches:

Deferred database modification: All logs are written on to the stable storage and
database is updated when transaction commits.

Immediate database modification: Each log follows an actual database modification.

That is, database is modified immediately after every operation.

Recovery with concurrent transactions

When more than one transactions are being executed in parallel, the logs are interleaved.
At the time of recovery it would become hard for recovery system to backtrack all logs,
and then start recovering. To ease this situation most modern DBMS use the concept of
'checkpoints'.

CHECKPOINT

Keeping and maintaining logs in real time and in real environment may fill out all the
memory space available in the system. At time passes log file may be too big to be
handled at all. Checkpoint is a mechanism where all the previous logs are removed from
the system and stored permanently in storage disk. Checkpoint declares a point before
which the DBMS was in consistent state and all the transactions were committed.

RECOVERY

When system with concurrent transaction crashes and recovers, it does behave in the
following manner:
 The recovery system reads the logs backwards from the end to the last Checkpoint.
 It maintains two lists, undo-list and redo-list.
 If the recovery system sees a log with <Tn, Start> and <Tn, Commit> or just <Tn,
Commit>, it puts the transaction in redo-list.
 If the recovery system sees a log with <Tn, Start> but no commit or abort log found, it
puts the transaction in undo-list.
 All transactions in undo-list are then undone and their logs are removed. All
transaction in redo-list, their previous logs are removed and then redone again and log
saved.

10. Consider the following schedules. The actions are listed in the order they are schedule,
and prefixed with transaction name.
S1: T1: R(X), T2: R(x), T1: W(Y), T2: W(Y), T1: R(Y), T2: R(Y)
S2:T3: R(X), T1: R(X), T1: W(Y), T2: R (Z), T2: W (Z), T3: R (Z)
For each of the schedules, answer the following questions:
i. What is the precedence graph for the schedule?
ii. Is the schedule conflict-serializable? If so, what are all the conflict equivalent
serial schedules?
iii. Is the schedule view-serializable? If so, what are all the view equivalent serial
schedules? (Apr/May 2015)

The Precedence graph for this schedule

1. Serizability (or view) cannot be decided but NOT conflict serizability. It is recoverable
and avoid cascading aborts; NOT strict
 2. It is serializable, conflict-serializable, and view-serializable regardless which action
(commit or abort) follows It is NOT avoid cascading aborts, NOT strict; We cannot
decide whether it's recoverable or not, since the abort/commit sequence of these two
transactions are not specified.
3. It is the same with 2.
4. Serizability (or view) cannot be decided but NOT conflict serizability. It is NOT
avoided cascading aborts, NOT strict; we cannot decide whether it's recoverable or
not, since the abort/commit sequence of these transactions are not specified.
5. It is serializable, conflict-serializable, and view-serializable; It is recoverable and avoid
cascading aborts; it is NOT strict.
6. It is NOT serializable, NOT view-serializable, and NOT conflict-serializable; it is
recoverable and avoids cascading aborts; It is NOT strict.
7. It belongs to all classes
8. It is serializable, NOT view-serializable, NOT conflict-serializable; it is NOT
recoverable, therefore NOT avoid cascading aborts, NOT strict.
9. It is serializable, view-serializable, and conflict-serializable; It is NOT recoverable,
therefore NOT avoid cascading aborts, NOT strict.
10. It belongs to all above classes.
11. It is NOT serializable and NOT view-serializable, NOT conflict-serializable; it is
recoverable, avoid cascading aborts and strict.
12. It is NOT serializable and NOT view-serializable, NOT conflict-serializable; it is
recoverable, but NOT avoid cascading aborts, NOT strict.

11. What is concurrency control? How is it implemented in DBMS? Illustrate with a

suitable example. (Nov’2015, May 2019)
(OR)
How the timestamps are implemented ? Explain? (Dec 2018)
(OR)
State and explain lock based concurrency control with suitable example?(Dec 2017)

In a multiprogramming environment where multiple transactions can be executed

simultaneously, it is highly important to control the concurrency of transactions. We have
concurrency control protocols to ensure atomicity, isolation, and serializability of concurrent
transactions. Concurrency control protocols can be broadly divided into two categories −
 Lock based protocols
 Time stamp based protocols

Lock-based Protocols
Database systems equipped with lock-based protocols use a mechanism by which any
transaction cannot read or write data until it acquires an appropriate lock on it. Locks are of
two kinds –

 Binary Locks − A lock on a data item can be in two states; it is either locked or
unlocked.
 Shared/exclusive − This type of locking mechanism differentiates the locks based on
their uses. If a lock is acquired on a data item to perform a write operation, it is an
exclusive lock. Allowing more than one transaction to write on the same data item
would lead the database into an inconsistent state. Read locks are shared because no data
value is being changed.
 There are four types of lock protocols available −

Simplistic Lock Protocol

Simplistic lock-based protocols allow transactions to obtain a lock on every object before
a 'write' operation is performed. Transactions may unlock the data item after completing
the ‘write’ operation.

Pre-claiming Lock Protocol

Pre-claiming protocols evaluate their operations and create a list of data items on which
they need locks. Before initiating an execution, the transaction requests the system for all
the locks it needs beforehand. If all the locks are granted, the transaction executes and
releases all the locks when all its operations are over. If all the locks are not granted, the
transaction rolls back and waits until all the locks are granted.

Two-Phase Locking 2PL

This locking protocol divides the execution phase of a transaction into three parts. In the
first part, when the transaction starts executing, it seeks permission for the locks it
requires. The second part is where the transaction acquires all the locks. As soon as the
transaction releases its first lock, the third phase starts. In this phase, the transaction
cannot demand any new locks; it only releases the acquired locks.

Two-phase locking has two phases, one is growing, where all the locks are being
acquired by the transaction; and the second phase is shrinking, where the locks held by
the transaction are being released.
To claim an exclusive (write) lock, a transaction must first acquire a shared (read) lock
and then upgrade it to an exclusive lock.
 Strict Two-Phase Locking
The first phase of Strict-2PL is same as 2PL. After acquiring all the locks in the first
phase, the transaction continues to execute normally. But in contrast to 2PL, Strict-2PL
does not release a lock after using it. Strict-2PL holds all the locks until the commit point
and releases all the locks at a time.

Strict-2PL does not have cascading abort as 2PL does.

Timestamp-based Protocols
The most commonly used concurrency protocol is the timestamp based protocol. This
protocol uses either system time or logical counter as a timestamp.
Lock-based protocols manage the order between the conflicting pairs among transactions
at the time of execution, whereas timestamp-based protocols start working as soon as a
transaction is created.
Every transaction has a timestamp associated with it, and the ordering is determined by
the age of the transaction. A transaction created at 0002 clock time would be older than
all other transactions that come after it. For example, any transaction 'y' entering the
system at 0004 is two seconds younger and the priority would be given to the older one.
In addition, every data item is given the latest read and write-timestamp. This lets the
system know when the last ‘read and write’ operation was performed on the data item.

Timestamp Ordering Protocol

The timestamp-ordering protocol ensures serializability among transactions in their
conflicting read and write operations. This is the responsibility of the protocol system
that the conflicting pair of tasks should be executed according to the timestamp values of
the transactions.
 The timestamp of transaction Ti is denoted as TS(Ti).
 Read time-stamp of data-item X is denoted by R-timestamp(X).
 Write time-stamp of data-item X is denoted by W-timestamp(X).

Timestamp ordering protocol works as follows −

 If a transaction Ti issues a read(X) operation −
o If TS(Ti) < W-timestamp(X)
 Operation rejected.
o If TS(Ti) >= W-timestamp(X)
 Operation executed.
o All data-item timestamps updated.
  If a transaction Ti issues a write(X) operation −
o If TS(Ti) < R-timestamp(X)
 Operation rejected.
o If TS(Ti) < W-timestamp(X)
 Operation rejected and Ti rolled back.
o Otherwise, operation executed.

Thomas' Write Rule

This rule states if TS(Ti) < W-timestamp(X), then the operation is rejected and Ti is
rolled back.
Time-stamp ordering rules can be modified to make the schedule view serializable.
Instead of making Ti rolled back, the 'write' operation itself is ignored.
In a multi-process system, deadlock is an unwanted situation that arises in a shared
resource environment, where a process indefinitely waits for a resource that is held by
another process.
For example, assume a set of transactions {T0, T1, T2, ...,Tn}. T0 needs a resource X to
complete its task. Resource X is held by T1, and T1 is waiting for a resource Y, which is
held by T2. T2 is waiting for resource Z, which is held by T0. Thus, all the processes
wait for each other to release resources. In this situation, none of the processes can
finish their task. This situation is known as a deadlock.
Deadlocks are not healthy for a system. In case a system is stuck in a deadlock, the
transactions involved in the deadlock are either rolled back or restarted.

12. Explain about Locking Protocols. (May 2016 & Nov’2016) (or)
Briefly describe two phase locking in concurrency control techniques. (Nov’2016)
(OR)
Explain the two phase locking protocol with an example?(May 2018, Nov 2019)
(OR)
Differentiate strict two phase locking and rigorous two phase locking protocol with an
example? (Dec 2018)

Two-Phase Locking (2PL)

 Two-Phase Locking (2PL) is a concurrency control method which divides the execution
phase of a transaction into three parts.
 It ensures conflict serializable schedules.
 If read and write operations introduce the first unlock operation in the transaction, then it
is said to be Two-Phase Locking Protocol.

This protocol can be divided into two phases,

1. In Growing Phase, a transaction obtains locks, but may not release any lock.
2. In Shrinking Phase, a transaction may release locks, but may not obtain any lock.

 Two-Phase Locking does not ensure freedom from deadlocks.

Types of Two – Phase Locking Protocol

Following are the types of two – phase locking protocol:

1. Strict Two – Phase Locking Protocol

2. Rigorous Two – Phase Locking Protocol
3. Conservative Two – Phase Locking Protocol

1. Strict Two-Phase Locking Protocol

 Strict Two-Phase Locking Protocol avoids cascaded rollbacks.

 This protocol not only requires two-phase locking but also all exclusive-locks should
be held until the transaction commits or aborts.
 It is not deadlock free.
 It ensures that if data is being modified by one transaction, then other transaction
cannot read it until first transaction commits.
 Most of the database systems implement rigorous two – phase locking protocol.

2. Rigorous Two-Phase Locking

 Rigorous Two – Phase Locking Protocol avoids cascading rollbacks.

 This protocol requires that all the share and exclusive locks to be held until the
transaction commits.

3. Conservative Two-Phase Locking Protocol

 Conservative Two – Phase Locking Protocol is also called as Static Two – Phase
Locking Protocol.
 This protocol is almost free from deadlocks as all required items are listed in advanced.
 It requires locking of all data items to access before the transaction starts.
 UNIT-4

IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES

PART-A

1. Give the measures of quality of a disk.

Capacity,Access time,Seek time,Data transfer rate Reliability
Rotational latency time.

2. Compare sequential access devices versus random access devices with an example
Sequential access devices
Must be accessed from the beginning Eg:- tape storage
Access to data is much slower Cheaper than disk

Random access devices

It is possible to read data from any location Eg:-disk storage
Access to data is faster
Expensive when compared with disk

3. What are the types of storage devices?

Primary storage
Secondary storage
Tertiary storage

4. Draw the storage device hierarchy according to their speed and their cost.
Cache , Main memory ,Flash memory, Magnetic disk ,Optical disk ,Magnetic tapes

5. What are called jukebox systems?

Jukebox systems contain a few drives and numerous disks that can be loaded into one
of the drives automatically.

6. What is called remapping of bad sectors?

If the controller detects that a sector is damaged when the disk is initially formatted, or
when an attempt is made to write the sector, it can logically map the sector to a different
physical location.

7. Define access time.

Access time is the time from when a read or write request is issued to when data transfer
begins.

8. Define seek time.

The time for repositioning the arm is called the seek time and it increases with the distance
that the arm is called the seek time.
9. Define average seek time.
The average seek time is the average of the seek times, measured over a sequence of
random requests.

10. Define rotational latency time.

The time spent waiting for the sector to be accessed to appear under the head is called
the rotational latency time.

11. Define average latency time.

The average latency time of the disk is one-half the time for a full rotation of the disk.

12. What is meant by data-transfer rate?

The data-transfer rate is the rate at which data can be retrieved from or stored to the disk.

13. What is meant by mean time to failure?

The mean time to failure is the amount of time that the system could run continuously
without failure.

14. What are a block and a block number?

A block is a contiguous sequence of sectors from a single track of one platter. Each
request specifies the address on the disk to be referenced. That address is in the form of a
block number.

15. What are called journaling file systems?

File systems that support log disks are called journaling file systems.

16. What is the use of RAID?

A variety of disk-organization techniques, collectively called redundant arrays of
independent disks are used to improve the performance and reliability.

17. Explain how reliability can be improved through redundancy?

The simplest approach to introducing redundancy is to duplicate every disk. This
technique is called mirroring or shadowing. A logical disk then consists of two physical
disks, and write is carried out on both the disk. If one of the disks fails the data can be read
from the other. Data will be lost if the second disk fails before the first fail ed disk is
repaired.

18. What is called mirroring?

The simplest approach to introducing redundancy is to duplicate every disk. This
technique is called mirroring or shadowing.

19. What is called mean time to repair?

The mean time to failure is the time it takes to replace a failed disk and to restore the data on
it.
20. What is called bit-level striping?
Data striping consists of splitting the bits of each byte across multiple disks. This is
called bit-level striping.

21. What is called block-level striping?

Block level striping stripes blocks across multiple disks. It treats the array of disks as a
large disk, and gives blocks logical numbers.

22. What are the two main goals of parallelism?

Load balance multiple small accesses, so that the throughput of such accesses
increases.
Parallelize large accesses so that the response time of large accesses is reduced

23. What are the factors to be taken into account when choosing a RAID level?
o Monetary cost of extra disk storage requirements.
o Performance requirements in terms of number of I/O operations o Performance
when a disk has failed.
o Performances during rebuild.

24. Define software and hardware RAID systems. (May 2016)

RAID can be implemented with no change at the hardware level, using
only software modification. Such RAID implementations are called software RAID
systems and the systems with special hardware support are called hardware RAID systems.

25. Define hot swapping?

Hot swapping permits the removal of faulty disks and replaces it by new ones
without turning power off. Hot swapping reduces the mean time to repair.

26. Which level of RAID is best? Why?

RAID level 1 is the RAID level of choice for many applications with
moderate storage requirements and high I/O requirements. RAID 1 follows mirroring and
provides best write performance.

27. Distinguish between fixed length records and variable length records?
Fixed length records
Every record has the same fields and field lengths are fixed.
Variable length records
File records are of same type but one or more of the fields are of varying size.

28. What are the ways in which the variable-length records representedin database systems? (Nov
2018)
Storage of multiple record types in a file.
Record types that allow variable lengths for one or more fields. Record types that
allow repeating fields.
29. Explain the use of variable length records.
They are used for Storing of multiple record types in a file.
Used for storing records that has varying lengths for one or more fields. Used for
storing records that allow repeating fields

30. What is the use of a slotted-page structure and what is the information present in
the header?
The slotted-page structure is used for organizing records within a single block. The header
contains the following information.
The number of record entries in the header. The end of free space
An array whose entries contain the location and size of each record.

31. What are the two types of blocks in the fixed –length representation? Define them.
• Anchor block: Contains the first record of a chain.
• Overflow block: Contains the records other than those that are the first record of a chain.

32. What is known as heap file organization?

In the heap file organization, any record can be placed anywhere in the file where
there is space for the record. There is no ordering of records. There is a single file for each
relation.

33. What is known as sequential file organization?

In the sequential file organization, the records are stored in sequential order,
according to the value of a “search key” of each record.

34. What is hashing file organization?

In the hashing file organization, a hash function is computed on some attribute of
each record. The result of the hash function specifies in which block of the file the record
should be placed.

35. What is known as clustering file organization?

In the clustering file organization, records of several different relations are stored in
the same file.

36. What is an index?

An index is a structure that helps to locate desired records of a relation quickly,
without examining all records.

37. What are the two types of ordered indices?

Primary index
Secondary index

38. What are the types of indices?

Ordered indices
Hash indices
39. What are the techniques to be evaluated for both ordered indexing and hashing?
Access types
Access time
Insertion time
Deletion time
Space overhead

40. What is known as a search key?

An attribute or set of attributes used to look up records in a file is called a search key.

41. What is a primary index?

A primary index is an index whose search key also defines the sequential order of the file.

42. What are called index-sequential files?

The files that are ordered sequentially with a primary index on the search key are called
index-sequential files.

43. What are the two types of indices?

Dense index
Sparse index

44. What are called multilevel indices?

Indices with two or more levels are called multilevel indices.

45. What are called secondary indices?

Indices whose search key specifies an order different from sequential order of the file
are called secondary indices. The pointers in secondary index do not point directly to the
file. Instead each points to a bucket that contains pointers to the file.

46. What are the disadvantages of index sequential files?

The main disadvantage of the index sequential file organization is that performance
degrades as the file grows. This degradation is remedied by reorganization of the file.

47. What is a B+-Tree index?

A B+-Tree index takes the form of a balanced tree in which every path from the
root of the root of the root of the tree to a leaf of the tree is of the same length.

48. What is B-Tree?

A B-tree eliminates the redundant storage of search-key values .It allows search
key values to appear only once.

49. What is hashing?

Hashing allows us to find the address of a data item directly by computing a hash
function on the search key value of the desired record.
50. Define static hashing and dynamic hashing.
Static hashing
Static hashing uses a hash function in which the set of bucket address is fixed. Such hash
functions cannot easily accommodate databases that grow larger over time.
Dynamic hashing
Dynamic hashing allows us to modify the hash fufnction dynamically. Dynamic hashing
copes with changes in database size by splitting and coalescing buckets as the database grows
and shrinks.

51. Differentiate between static hashing and dynamic hashing. (Nov’2014 , Dec 2014, May 2015 &
Dec 2015)

Static Hashing Dynamic Hashing

In static hashing, when a search-key value is Hash function, in dynamic hashing, is made
provided, the hash function always computes to produce a large number of values and only
the same address. a few are used initially.

The number of buckets provided remains Dynamic hashing provides a mechanism in

unchanged at all times i.e. fixed which data buckets are added and removed
dynamically and on-demand .i.e. no. of
buckets not fixed.

Space and overhead is more Minimum space and less overhead

As file grows performance decreases Performance do not degrade as file grows

52. What is a hash index?

A hash index organizes the search keys, with their associated pointers, into a hash file
structure.

53. What can be done to reduce the occurrences of bucket overflows in a hash file
organization?
To reduce bucket overflow the number of bucket is chosen to be (nr/fr)*(1+d).
We handle bucket overflow by using
• Overflow chaining(closed hashing)
• Open hashing

54. Differentiate open hashing and closed hashing (overflow chaining)

Closed hashing
If a record must be inserted in to a bucket b, and b is already full, the system
provides an overflow bucket for b, and inserts the record in to the overflow bucket. If the
overflow bucket is also full, the system provides another overflow bucket, and so on. All the
overflow buckets of a given buckets are chained together in a linked list, overflow handling
using linked list is known as closed hashing.
Open hashing
The set of buckets is fixed, and there are no overflow chains. Instead, if a bucket is full,
the system inserts records in some other bucket in the initial set of buckets.

55. What is linear probing?

Linear probing is a type of open hashing. If a bucket is full the system inserts records in
to the next bucket that has space. This is known as linear probing.

56. Give an example of a join that is not a simple equi-join for which partitioned
parallelism can be used. (Nov/Dec 2015)

r join (r. A = s. B)(r. A < s. c)

57. What is mean by garbage collection? (May 2016)

Garbage collection (GC) is a dynamic approach to automatic memory management and heap
allocation that processes and identifies dead memory blocks and reallocates storage for reuse.
The primary purpose of garbage collection is to reduce memory leaks.

GC implementation requires three primary approaches, as follows:

 Mark-and-sweep - In process when memory runs out, the GC locates all accessible
memory and then reclaims available memory.
 Reference counting - Allocated objects contain a reference count of the referencing
number. When the memory count is zero, the object is garbage and is then destroyed. The
freed memory returns to the memory heap.
 Copy collection - There are two memory partitions. If the first partition is full, the GC
locates all accessible data structures and copies them to the second partition, compacting
memory after GC process and allowing continuous free memory.

58. List out the mechanisms to avoid collision during hashing. (Dec’2016)
The various mechanisms to avoid collision during hashing are

 Closed Hashing (Open addressing)

- Linear Probing
- Quadratic Probing
- Double hashing

 Open Hashing
- Separate Chaining

59. What are the disadvantages of B Tree over B+ Tree. (Dec’2016)

(OR)
Why is a B+ tree usually preferred as an access structure to a data file?(Nov 2018)
The disadvantages of B Tree over B+ Tree are:

In a B tree, search keys and data stored in internal or leaf nodes which leads to
wastage of memory.

Here in B tree the search is not that easy as compared to a B+ tree.
 
Here, searching becomes difficult in B- tree as data cannot be found in the leaf node.

In B tree, the leaf node cannot store using linked list.

60. Differentiate between B Tree over B+ Tree.

B Tree
B+ Tree

In a B tree, search keys and data In a B+ tree, data stored only in

Storage
stored in internal or leaf nodes. leaf nodes.

The leaf nodes of the three store The leaf nodes of the tree stores
Data pointers to records rather than the actual record rather than
actual records. pointers to records.

Space These trees waste space There trees do not waste space.

In B tree, the leaf node cannot In B+ tree, leaf node data are
Function of leaf nodes
store using linked list. ordered in a sequential linked list.

Here, searching becomes difficult Here, searching of any data in a

Searching in B- tree as data cannot be found B+ tree is very easy because all
in the leaf node. data is found in leaf nodes.

Here in B tree the search is not that Here in B+ tree the searching
Search accessibility
easy as compared to a B+ tree. becomes easy.

They do not store redundant search

Redundant key They store redundant search key.
key.

They are an older version and are Many database system

Applications not that advantageous as compared implementers prefer the structural
to the B+ trees. simplicity of a B+ tree.
 61. State the need for Query Optimization? (MAY 2015)
To manage long-running queries
Sharing of system resources
Faster server and application processing
To avoid table locking and data corruption issues
Cost reduction

62. What is called query processing? What are the steps involved in query processing? (APR 2018, NOV
2017)
Query processing refers to the range of activities involved in extracting data from a database.

The basic steps are:

Parsing and translation
optimization
evaluation

63. What is called an evaluation primitive?

A relational algebra operation annotated with instructions on how to evaluate is called an evaluation
primitive.

64. What is called a query evaluation plan? How do you measure the cost of query evaluation? A
sequence of primitive operations that can be used to evaluate ba query is a query evaluation plan or a query
execution plan.

The cost of a query evaluation is measured in terms of a number of different resources including disk
accesses, CPU time to execute a query, and in a distributed database system the cost of communication

65. What is called a query execution engine?

The query execution engine takes a query evaluation plan, executes that plan, and returns the answers to the
query.

66. List out the operations involved in query processing

Selection operation
Join operations. Sorting. Projection
Set operations Aggregation

67. What are called as index scans?

Search algorithms that use an index are referred to as index scans.

68. What is called as external sorting?

Sorting of relations that do not fit into memory is called as external sorting.

69. Explain nested loop join? What is meant by block nested loop join?

Nested loop join consists of a pair of nested for loops. r is the outer relation and s is the inner
relation.

Block nested loop join is the variant of the nested loop join where every block of the inner
relation is paired with every block of the outer relation. With in each pair of blocks every tuple in one
block is paired with every tuple in the other blocks to generate all pairs of tuples.

70. What is meant by hash join?

In the hash join algorithm a hash function h is used to implement partition tuples of both relations.
71. What is called as recursive partitioning?
The system repeats the splitting of the input until each partition of the build input fits in t he memory.
Such partitioning is called recursive partitioning.

72. What is called as an N-way merge?

The merge operation is a generalization of the two-way merge used by the standard in- memory
sort-merge algorithm. It merges N runs, so it is called an N-way merge.

73. What is known as fudge factor?

The number of partitions is increased by a small value called the fudge factor,which is usually 20 percent of
the number of hash partitions computed

74. What is a query execution plan? (MAY 2017)

A query plan (or query execution plan) is an ordered set of steps used to access data in a SQL relational
database management system. This is a specific case of the relational model concept of access plans.

75.What cost components are used most often as the basic for cost function? (MAY 2017)

Cost Components for Query Execution

The cost of executing a query includes the following components:

1. Access cost to secondary storage.

2. Disk storage cost.
.3. Computation cost.
4. Memory usage cost.
5. Communication cost.

76. What are ordered indices? (May 2014, Dec 2017)

(OR)
Define ordered indices with example?

This is type of indexing which is based on sorted indexing values. Various ordered indices are primary indexing,
secondary indexing.

77.What are data fragmentation? State the various fragmentation with an example?(Dec 2017)

• Fragmentation
– The system partitions the relation into several fragment and stores each fragment
at different sites
– Two approaches
• Horizontal fragmentation
• Vertical fragmentation

Horizontal fragmentation
Splits the relation by assigning each tuple of r to one or more fragments
 relation r is partitioned into a number of subsets, r1 ,r2,…..rn and can be
reconstruct the original relation using union of all fragments, that is
r = r1 U r2 U……U rn
• Vertical fragmentation
– Splits the relation by decomposing scheme R of relation and reconstruct the
original relation by using natural join of all fragments. that is
r = r1 r2 …… rn

78.What is a hash function? Give an example?

In a hash file organization we obtain the bucket of a record directly from its search-key
value using a hash function.
Hash function h is a function from the set of all search-key values K to the set of
all bucket addresses B.
Hash function is used to locate records for access, insertion as well as deletion.
Example:
-There are 10 buckets,
-The hash function returns the sum of the binary representations of the characters
modulo 10
– E.g. h(Perryridge) = 5 h(Round Hill) = 3 h(Brighton) = 3

79.Define dense index?(May 2019)

Dense index — Index record appears for every search-key value in the file.
- Secondary indices have to be dense.

80. Mention all the operations of file? (May 2019)

The various operations of file are:
 Read
 Write
 Search
 Update
 Delete

81.How do you represent leaf node of a B+ tree of order P? (Nov 2019)

The structure of the leaf nodes of a B+ tree of order 'b' is as follows: Each leaf node is of the form : <<K1,
D1>, <K2, D2>, ….., <Kc-1, Dc-1>, Pnext> Every leaf node has : K1 < K2 < …. < Kc-1, c <= b. Each leaf
node has at least \ceil(b/2) values. All leaf nodes are at same level.

82.Which cost components contribute to query execution? (Nov 2019)

 Disk storage cost.

 Computation cost.
 Memory usage cost.
 Communication cost.
 PART - B

1.What is meant by semantic query optimization? How does it differ from other query optimization
technique? Give example? (MAY 2017)

Semantic Query Optimizer

 Semantic query optimization is the process of determining the set of semantic transformations that
results in a semantically equivalent query with a lower execution cost.
 Two queries are semantically equivalent if they return the same answer for any database state
satisfying a given set of integrity constraints.
 A semantic transformation transforms a given query into a semantically equivalent one.
 ODB-QOptimizer determines more specialized classes to be accessed and reduces the number of
factors by applying the Integrity Constraint Rules.

Semantic query optimization is the process of transforming a query issued by a user into a different query
which, because of the semantics of the application, is guaranteed to yield the correct answer for all states of
the database. While this process has been successfully applied in centralised databases, its potential for
distributed and heterogeneous systems is enormous, as there is the potential to eliminate inter-site joins
which are the single biggest cost factor in query processing. Further justification for its use is provided by
the fact that users of heterogeneous databases typically issue queries through high-level languages which
may result in very inefficient queries if mapped directly, without consideration of the semantics of the
system. Even if this is not the case, users cannot be expected to be familiar with the semantics of the
component databases, and may consequently issue queries which are unnecessarily complicated.

A different approach to query optimization, called semantic query optimization, has been suggested. This
technique, which may be used in combination with the techniques discussed previously, uses constraints
specified on the database schema—such as unique attributes and other more complex constraints—in order
to modify one query into another query that is more efficient to execute. We will not discuss this approach
in detail but we will illustrate it with a simple example. Consider the SQL query:

SELECT E.Lname, M.Lname

FROM EMPLOYEE AS E, EMPLOYEE AS M

WHERE E.Super_ssn=M.Ssn AND E.Salary > M.Salary

This query retrieves the names of employees who earn more than their supervisors. Suppose that we had a
constraint on the database schema that stated that no employee can earn more than his or her direct
supervisor. If the semantic query optimizer checks for the existence of this constraint, it does not need to
execute the query at all because it knows that the result of the query will be empty. This may save
considerable time if the constraint checking can be done efficiently. However, searching through many
constraints to find those that are applicable to a given query and that may semantically optimize it can also
be quite time-consuming. With the inclusion of active rules and additional metadata in database systems,
semantic query optimization techniques are being gradually incorporated into the DBMSs.

The term quote semantic query optimization quote (SQO) denotes a methodology whereby queries
against databases are optimized using semantic information about the database objects being queried. The
result of semantically optimizing a query is another query which is syntactically different to the original,
but semantically equivalent and which may be answered more efficiently than the original. SQO is
distinctly different from the work performed by the conventional SQL optimizer. The SQL optimizer
generates a set of logically equivalent alternative execution paths based ultimately on the rules of relational
algebra. However, only a small proportion of the readily available semantic information is utilised by
current SQL optimizers. Researchers in SQO agree that SQO can be very effective.

However, after some twenty years of research into SQO, there is still no commercial implementation. In
this thesis we argue that we need to quantify the conditions for which SQO is worthwhile. We investigate
what these conditions are and apply this knowledge to relational database management systems (RDBMS)
with static schemas and infrequently updated data. Any semantic query optimizer requires the ability to
reason using the semantic information available, in order to draw conclusions which ultimately facilitate the
recasting of the original query into a form which can be answered more efficiently. This reasoning engine is
currently not part of any commercial RDBMS implementation.

2.Briefly explain about Query Processing? (Apr 2016, Nov 2019) (or)

Explain query optimization with an example? (Nov 2016) (or)

What is Query Optimization? Explain the steps in Query Optimization? (APR 2018)

QUERY PROCESSING AND OPTIMIZATION

A query expressed in a high-level query language such as SQL must first be scanned, parsed, and
validated.1 The scanner identifies the query tokens—such as SQL keywords, attribute names, and relation names—
that appear in the text of the query, whereas the parser checks the query syntax to determine whether it is
formulated according to the syntax rules (rules of grammar) of the query language. The query must also be validated
by checking that all attribute and relation names are valid and semantically meaningful names in the schema of the
particular database being queried. An internal representation of the query is then created, usually as a tree data
structure called a query tree. It is also possible to represent the query using a graph data structure called a query
graph. The DBMS must then devise an execution strategy or query plan for retrieving the results of the query from
the database files. A query typically has many possible execution strategies, and the process of choosing a suitable
one for processing a query is known as query optimization

Different steps of processing a high level query

 Query in a high-level language

Scanning, parsing, and validating

Immediate form of query

Code can be: Query optimizer

Executed directly (interpreted mode)
Stored and executed later whenever
needed (compiled mode)
Execution plan

Query code generator

Code to execute the query

Runtime database processor

Result of query

The query optimizer module has the task of producing a good execution plan, and the code
generator generates the code to execute that plan. The runtime database processor has the task of running
(executing) the query code, whether in compiled or interpreted mode, to produce the query result. If a runtime error
results, an error message is generated by the runtime database processor.

TRANSLATING SQL QUERIES INTO RELATIONAL ALGEBRA

An SQL query is first translated into an equivalent extended relational algebra expression represented as a
query tree data structure—that is then optimized. Typically, SQL queries are decomposed into query blocks, which
form the basic units that can be translated into the algebraic operators and optimized. A query block contains a
single SELECT-FROM-WHERE expression, as well as GROUP BY and HAVING clauses if these are part of the
block. Hence, nested queries within a query are identified as MIN, SUM, and COUNT
Consider the following SQL query on the EMPLOYEE relation:
SELECT Lname, Fname
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE Salary > ( SELECT MAX (Salary)
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE Dno=5 );
This query retrieves the names of employees (from any department in the company) who earn a salary that
is greater than the highest salary in department 5. The query includes a nested subquery and hence would be
decomposed into two blocks.
The inner block is:
( SELECT MAX (Salary)
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE Dno=5 )
This retrieves the highest salary in department 5.
The outer query block is:
SELECT Lname, Fname
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE Salary > c
where c represents the result returned from the inner block. The inner block couldbe translated into the following
extended relational algebra expression:

ℑMAX Salary(σDno=5(EMPLOYEE))
and the outer block into the expression:
πLname,Fname(σSalary>c(EMPLOYEE))

The query optimizer would then choose an execution plan for each query block.

3.Discuss about the Join order optimization and Heuristic optimization algorithms? (APR 2015)

Join Order Optimization Algorithm

The join order is fixed if any join logical files are referenced. The join order is also fixed if the
OPNQRYF JORDER(*FILE) parameter is specified or the query options file (QAQQINI)
FORCE_JOIN_ORDER parameter is *YES.
Otherwise, the following join ordering algorithm is used to determine the order of the tables:
1. Determine an access method for each individual table as candidates for the primary dial.
2. Estimate the number of rows returned for each table based on local row selection.
 If the join query with row ordering or group by processing is being processed in one
step, then the table with the ordering or grouping columns is the primary table.
3. Determine an access method, cost, and expected number of rows returned for each join
combination of candidate tables as primary and first secondary tables.
The join order combinations estimated for a four table inner join would be:
1-2 2-1 1-3 3-1 1-4 4-1 2-3 3-2 2-4 4-2 3-4 4-3.
4. Choose the combination with the lowest join cost and number of selected rows or both.
5. Determine the cost, access method, and expected number of rows for each remaining table
joined to the previous secondary table.
6. Select an access method for each table that has the lowest cost for that table.
7. Choose the secondary table with the lowest join cost and number of selected rows or both.
8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 until the lowest cost join order is determined.

Heuristic Optimization

Perform selection early (reduces the number of tuples).

Perform projection early (reduces the number of attributes)
Perform most restrictive selection and join operations before other similar operations.
Steps in Typical Heuristic Optimization
1. Deconstruct conjunctive selections into a sequence of single selection operations (Equiv. rule 1).
2. Move selection operations down the query tree for the earliest possible execution (Equiv. rules 2,7a,
7b, 11).
3. Execute first those selection and join operations that will produce the smallest relations (Equiv.rule
6).
4. Replace Cartesian product operations that are followed by a selection condition by join
operations (Equiv. rule 4a).
5. Deconstruct and move as far down the tree as possible lists of projection attributes, creating new
projections where needed (Equiv. rules 3, 8a, 8b, 12).
6. Identify those subtrees whose operations can be pipelined, and execute them using pipelining.

Structure of Query Optimizers

_ The System R optimizer considers only left-deep join orders.

_ This reduces optimization complexity and generates plans amenable to
pipelined evaluation. System R also uses heuristics to push selections and
projections down the query tree.
_ For scans using secondary indices, the Sybase optimizer takes into account
the probability that the page containing the tuple is in the buffer.
_ Some query optimizers integrate heuristic selection and the generation of
alternative access plans.
– System R and Starburst use a hierarchical procedure based on the nested-block concept of SQL:
heuristic rewriting followed by cost-based join-order optimization.
– The Oracle7 optimizer supports a heuristic based on available access paths.
_ Even with the use of heuristics, cost-based query optimization imposes a
substantial overhead.
This expense is usually more than offset by savings at query-execution time, particularly by
reducing the number of slow disk accesses.

4.Give a detailed description about Query Processing and optimization. Explain the cost estimation of
Query Optimization? (Nov 2014) (or)

Explain the catalog information for cost estimation for selection and sorting operation in database?
(NOV 2017) (or)
How does a DBMS represent a relational query evaluation plan? (NOV 2018)

BASIC STEPS IN QUERY PROCESSING

1. Parsing and translation

2. Optimization
3. Evaluation

Parsing and translation

Parsing and translation translates the query into its internal form. This is then translated into
relational algebra.Parser checks syntax, verifies relations
Evaluation
The query-execution engine takes a query-evaluation plan, executes that plan, and returns the
answers to the query.
Optimization – finding the cheapest evaluation plan for a query.

* Given relational algebra expression may have many equivalent expressions E.g.

Catalog Information about Indices

fi : average fan-out of internal nodes of index i, for tree-structured indices such as B+-trees.
HTi : number of levels in index i — i.e., the height of i .
– For a balanced tree index (such as a B+-tree) on attribute A of relation r ,
HTi = dlogfi (V (A, r)e.
– For a hash index, HTi is 1.
LBi : number of lowest-level index blocks in i — i.e., the number of blocks at the leaf level of the
index.

Measures of Query Cost

• Many possible ways to estimate cost, for instance disk accesses, CPU time, or even
Communication overhead in a distributed or parallel system.

Typically disk access is the predominant cost, and is also relatively easy to estimate. Therefore
number of block transfers from disk is used as a measure of the actual cost of evaluation. It is
assumed that all transfers of blocks have the same cost.
• Costs of algorithms depend on the size of the buffer in main memory, as having more memory
reduces need for disk access. Thus memory size should be a parameter while estimating cost;
often use worst case estimates.

• We refer to the cost estimate of algorithm A as EA. We do not include cost of writing output to
disk.

Selection Operation

File scan – search algorithms that locate and retrieve records that fulfill a selection condition.
Algorithm A1 (linear search):

Scan each file block and test all records to see whether they satisfy the selection condition.
– Cost estimate (number of disk blocks scanned) EA1 = br
– If selection is on a key attribute, EA1 = (br / 2) (stop on finding record)
– Linear search can be applied regardless of
1 selection condition, or
2 ordering of records in the file, or
3 availability of indices

Algorithm A2 (binary search):

Applicable if selection is an equality comparison on the attribute on which

file is ordered.
– Assume that the blocks of a relation are stored contiguously.
– Cost estimate (number of disk blocks to be scanned):
[log2(br )] — cost of locating the first tuple by a binary search on the blocks.
SC(A, r ) —number of records that will satisfy the selection.
[SC(A, r )/fr ] — number of blocks that these records will occupy.
- Equality condition on a key attribute:
SC(A, r) = 1;
estimate reduces to
EA2 = [log2(br )]
Statistical Information for Examples
• faccount = 20 (20 tuples of account fit in one block)
• V (branch-name, account ) = 50 (50 branches)
• V (balance, account ) = 500 (500 different balance values)
• naccount = 10000 (account has 10,000 tuples)
• Assume the following indices exist on account:
– A primary, B+-tree index for attribute branch-name
– A secondary, B+-tree index for attribute balance

Selection Cost Estimate Example

Number of blocks is baccount = 500:

10, 000 tuples in the relation; each block holds 20 tuples.
Assume account is sorted on branch-name.
– V (branch-name, account ) is 50
 – 10000/ 50 = 200 tuples of the account relation pertain to Perryridge branch
– 200/ 20 = 10 blocks for these tuples
– A binary search to find the first record would take
dlog2(500)e = 9 block accesses
Total cost of binary search is 9 + 10 ? 1 = 18 block accesses (versus 500 for linear scan)

Since Indices speed query processing why might they not be kept on several search keys? List
as many reasons as possible? (NOV 2018)

5.Describe File Organization.

(OR)
How the records are represented and organized in files.Explain wih suitable example? (Dec
2018)

-The database is stored as a collection of files.

- Each file is a sequence of records.
-A record is a sequence of fields.
-Classifications of records
i. Fixed length record
ii. Variable length record

Fixed length record approach:

o assume record size is fixed
o each file has records of one particular type only
o Different files are used for different relations. This case is easiest to implement.
• Simple approach:
– Record access is simple
– Modification: do not allow records to cross block boundaries

Variable length record

• Deletion of record I:
alternatives:
– move records i + 1, . . ., n to i, . . . , n – 1
– do not move records, but link all free records on a free list
• Variable-length records arise in database systems in several ways:
– Storage of multiple record types in a file.
– Record types that allow variable lengths for one or more fields.
• Byte string representation
– Attach an end-of-record () control character to the end of each record
– Difficulty with deletion
Slotted Page Structure
Slotted page header contains:
– number of record entries
– end of free space in the block
– location and size of each record
Free Lists
• Store the address of the first deleted record in the file header.
• Use this first record to store the address of the second deleted record, and so on
Pointer method
• A variable-length record is represented by a list of fixed-length records, chained
together via pointers.
• Can be used even if the maximum record length is not known

• Disadvantage to pointer structure; space is wasted in all records except the first in a a
chain.
• Solution is to allow two kinds of block in file:
– Anchor block – contains the first records of chain
Overflow block – contains records other than those that are the first records of chains.

6.Define RAID and Briefly Explain RAID techniques. (Nov’2014, May 2015, Nov’2015,
May 2016 & Nov’2016)
(OR)
What is RAID? Briefly discuss about RAID? (May 2019, Nov 2019)

RAID: Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks

a. disk organization techniques that manage a large numbers of disks, providing a

view of a single disk of
i. high capacity and high speed by using multiple disks in parallel, and
ii. high reliability by storing data redundantly, so that data can be recovered
even if a disk fails
RAID Level 0: striping; non-redundant.

• Used in high-performance applications where data lost is not critical.

RAID Level 1: Mirroring (or shadowing)

– Duplicate every disk.

– Every write is carried out on both disks
– If one disk in a pair fails, data still available in the other
• Data loss would occur only if a disk fails, and its mirror disk also fails
before the system is repaired
– Probability of combined event is very small

• RAID Level 2: Error-Correcting-Codes (ECC) with bit striping.

• RAID Level 3: Bit-Interleaved Parity
– a single parity bit is enough for error correction, not just detection, since we
know which disk has failed
• When writing data, corresponding parity bits must also be computed and
written to a parity bit disk
• To recover data in a damaged disk, compute XOR of bits from other disks
(including parity bit disk)
 • RAID Level 4: Block-Interleaved Parity.
– When writing data block, corresponding block of parity bits must also be
computed and written to parity disk
– To find value of a damaged block, compute XOR of bits from corresponding
blocks (including parity block) from other disks.

–
• RAID Level 5: Block-Interleaved Distributed Parity; partitions data and parity among
all N + 1 disks, rather than storing data in N disks and parity in 1 disk.

• RAID Level 6: P+Q Redundancy scheme; similar to Level 5, but stores extra redundant
information to guard against multiple disk failures.
– Better reliability than Level 5 at a higher cost; not used as widely.

7.Explain Secondary storage devices.

Can differentiate storage into:
b. volatile storage: loses contents when power is switched off
c. non-volatile storage:
i. Contents persist even when power is switched off.
ii. Includes secondary and tertiary storage.
primary storage: Fastest media but volatile (cache, main memory).
secondary storage: next level in hierarchy, non-volatile, moderately fast access time.
also called on-line storage
tertiary storage: lowest level in hierarchy, non-volatile, slow access timealso called off-
line storage
E.g. magnetic tape, optical storage
Cache – fastest and most costly form of storage; volatile; managed by the computer
system hardware.
Main memory:
 fast access
 generally too small
 capacities of up to a few Gigabytes widely used currently
 Volatile — contents of main memory are usually lost if a power failure or
system crash occurs.
Flash memory
– Data survives power failure
– Data can be written at any location.
– The location can be erased and written to again
– Can support only a limited number of write/erase cycles.
– Reads are fast.
– But writes are slow (few microseconds), erase is slower
– also known as EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only
Memory)
Magnetic-disk
a. Data is stored on spinning disk, and read/written magnetically
b. Primary medium for the long-term storage of data.
c. Data must be moved from disk to main memory for access, and written back for
storage
i. Much slower access than main memory
d. direct-access – possible to read data on disk in any order, unlike magnetic tape
i. Much larger capacity than main memory/flash memory
ii. disk failure can destroy data, but is very rare

Read-write head
-Positioned very close to the platter surface
-Reads or writes magnetically.
-Surface of platter divided into circular tracks
-Each track is divided into sectors.
-A sector is the smallest unit of data that can be read or written.
-Head-disk assemblies
-multiple disk platters on a single spindle (typically 2 to 4)
-ne head per platter, mounted on a common arm.
Cylinder i consists of ith track of all the platters
Disk controller – interfaces between the computer system and the disk drive hardware.
– accepts high-level commands to read or write a sector
– initiates actions such as moving the disk arm to the right track and actually
reading or writing the data
 – Ensures successful writing by reading back sector after writing it.
• Optical storage
– non-volatile, data is read optically from a spinning disk using a laser
– CD-ROM and DVD most popular forms
– Write-one, read-many (WORM) optical disks are available (CD-R and DVD-R)
– Multiple write versions also available (CD-RW, DVD-RW)
– Reads and writes are slower than with magnetic disk
• Tape storage
– non-volatile, Used mainly for backup, for storage of infrequently used
information, and as an off-line medium for transferring information from one
system to another..
• Hold large volumes of data and provide high transfer rates
– sequential-access – much slower than disk
• Very slow access time in comparison to magnetic disks and optical disks
– very high capacity (300 GB tapes available)
– storage costs much cheaper than disk, but drives are expensive

8.Explain about Multidimensional and Parallel with an example

MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASES:

A multidimensional database (MDB) is a type of database that is optimized for data

warehouse and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications. Multidimensional databases
are frequently created using input from existing relational databases. Whereas a relational
database is typically accessed using a Structured Query Language (SQL) query, a
multidimensional database allows a user to ask questions like "How many Aptivas have been
sold in Nebraska so far this year?" and similar questions related to summarizing business
operations and trends. An OLAP application that accesses data from a multidimensional
database is known as a MOLAP (multidimensional OLAP) application.

A multidimensional database - or a multidimensional database management system

(MDDBMS) - implies the ability to rapidly process the data in the database so that answers
can be generated quickly. A number of vendors provide products that use multidimensional
databases. Approaches to how data is stored and the user interface vary.Conceptually, a
multidimensional database uses the idea of a data cube to represent the dimensions of data
available to a user. For example, "sales" could be viewed in the dimensions of product model,
geography, time, or some additional dimension. In this case, "sales" is known as the measure
attribute of the data cube and the other dimensions are seen as feature attributes. Additionally,
a database creator can define hierarchies and levels within a dimension (for example, state and
city levels within a regional hierarchy).

PARALLEL DATABASES:

A parallel database is designed to take advantage of such architectures by running multiple

instances which "share" a single physical database. In appropriate applications, a parallel server
can allow access to a single database by users on multiple machines, with increased performance.
 A parallel server processes transactions in parallel by servicing a stream of transactions using
multiple CPUs on different nodes, where each CPU processes an entire transaction. Using
parallel data manipulation language you can have one transaction being performed by multiple
nodes. This is an efficient approach because many applications consist of online insert and
update transactions which tend to have short data access requirements. In addition to balancing
the workload among CPUs, the parallel database provides for concurrent access to data and
protects data integrity.

Key elements of parallel processing:

 Speedup and Scaleup: the Goals of Parallel Processing
 Synchronization: A Critical Success Factor
 Locking
 Messaging

9.Illustrate indexing and hashing techniques with suitable examples. (Nov’2015)

In an ordered index, index entries are stored sorted on the search key value.

Primary index: in a sequentially ordered file, the index whose search key specifies the
sequential order of the file.

Secondary index: an index whose search key specifies an order different from the
sequential order of the file.

Types of Ordered Indices

• Dense index
• Sparse index

Dense index — Index record appears for every search-key value in the file.

Sparse Index: contains index records for only some search-key values.
– Applicable when records are sequentially ordered on search-key
To locate a record with search-key value K we:
– Find index record with largest search-key value < K
– Search file sequentially starting at the record to which the index record points
Multilevel index
– If primary index does not fit in memory, access becomes expensive.
– To reduce number of disk accesses to index records, treat primary index kept on
disk as a sequential file and construct a sparse index on it.
– outer index – a sparse index of primary index
– inner index – the primary index file
– If even outer index is too large to fit in main memory, yet another level of index
can be created, and so on.

Secondary Indices
- Index record points to a bucket that contains pointers to all the actual records with that
particular searchkey value.
- Secondary indices have to be dense
Hashing:
Static hashing:
A bucket is a unit of storage containing one or more records.
In a hash file organization we obtain the bucket of a record directly from its search-key
value using a hash function.
Hash function h is a function from the set of all search-key values K to the set of
all bucket addresses B.
Hash function is used to locate records for access, insertion as well as deletion.
Example:
-There are 10 buckets,
-The hash function returns the sum of the binary representations of the characters
modulo 10
– E.g. h(Perryridge) = 5 h(Round Hill) = 3 h(Brighton) = 3

Dynamic hashing:
• Good for database that grows and shrinks in size
• Allows the hash function to be modified dynamically
• Extendable hashing – one form of dynamic hashing
– Hash function generates values over a large range — typically b-bit
integers, with b=32.
– At any time use only a prefix of the hash function to index into a table of
bucket addresses.
– Let the length of the prefix be i bits, 0  i  32.
– Bucket address table size = 2i. Initially i = 0
– Value of i grows and shrinks as the size of the database grows and shrinks.
– Multiple entries in the bucket address table may point to a bucket.
– Thus, actual number of buckets is < 2i
 – The number of buckets also changes dynamically due to coalescing and
splitting of buckets.

General Extendable Hash Structure

In this structure, i2 = i3 = i, whereas i1 = i – 1 (see next slide for details)

Use of Extendable Hash Structure

• To locate the bucket containing search-key Kj:
1. Compute h(Kj) = X
2. Use the first i high order bits of X as a displacement into bucket address table, and
follow the pointer to appropriate bucket
Updates in Extendable Hash Structure
• To insert a record with search-key value Kj
– follow same procedure as look-up and locate the bucket, say j.
– If there is room in the bucket j insert record in the bucket.
– Overflow buckets used instead in some cases.
• To delete a key value,
– locate it in its bucket and remove it.
– The bucket itself can be removed if it becomes empty
– Coalescing of buckets can be done
Decreasing bucket address table size is also possible

10.Explain about B+ trees indexing concepts with an example (Nov’2014 & May 2016)
(OR)
Explain the B+ tree indexes on multiple keys with a suitable example? (Dec 2017) (OR)
Describe the structure of B+ tree and give the algorithm for search in the B+ tree with example? (Apr
2019)
A B+-tree is a rooted tree satisfying the following properties:

• All paths from root to leaf are of the same length

• Each node that is not a root or a leaf has between [n/2] and n children.
• Special cases:
o If the root is not a leaf, it has at least 2 children.
 o If the root is a leaf, it can have between 0 and (n–1) values.

B+Tree Node Structure

-Typical node

*Ki are the search-key values

*Pi are pointers to children (for non-leaf nodes) or pointers to records or buckets of
records (for leaf nodes).
-The searchkeys in a node are ordered
K1 < K2 < K3 < . . . < Kn–1
Properties of leaf node
• For i = 1, 2, . . ., n–1, pointer Pi either points to a file record with search-key value Ki, or
to a bucket of pointers to file records, each record having search-key value Ki.
• Pn points to next leaf node in search-key order
Non-Leaf Nodes in B+-Trees
Non leaf nodes form a multi-level sparse index on the leaf nodes. For a non-leaf node
with m pointers:All the search-keys in the subtree to which P1 points are less than K1.

Disadvantage of indexed-sequential files: performance degrades as file grows, since many

overflow blocks get created. Periodic reorganization of entire file is required.
Advantage of B+-tree index files: automatically reorganizes itself with small, local,
changes, in the face of insertions and deletions. Reorganization of entire file is not required
to maintain performance.
Disadvantage of B+-trees: extra insertion and deletion overhead, space overhead.

11.Explain about B trees indexing concepts with an example

(Nov’2014)

A B-tree is a tree data structure that keeps data sorted and allows searches, insertions, and
deletions in logarithmic amortized time. Unlike self-balancing binary search trees, it is
optimized for systems that read and write large blocks of data. It is most commonly used
in database and file systems.

• Similar to B+-tree, but B-tree allows search-key values to appear only once; eliminates
redundant storage of search keys.
 • Search keys in nonleaf nodes appear nowhere else in the B-tree; an additional pointer
field for each search key in a nonleaf node must be included.

The rules for a B tree are as follows.

• If the root is not a leaf node, it must have at least two children.
• For a tree of order n, each node except the root and leaf nodes must have between
n/2 and n pointers .
• The number of key values contained in a non leaf node is 1 less than the number of
pointers.
• The tree must always be balanced ie every path from the root node to

B-tree Structure for a) Leaf node and b) Non-leaf node

Where Ki are the search-key values and Pi are pointers to children

Nonleaf node – pointers Bi are the bucket or file record pointers.

Example for B tree

Advantages of B-Tree indices:

 May use less tree nodes than a corresponding B+-Tree.

  Sometimes possible to find search-key value before reaching leaf node.
Disadvantages of B-Tree indices:

 Only small fraction of all search-key values are found early

 Non-leaf nodes are larger, so fan-out is reduced. Thus, B-Trees typically
have greater depth than corresponding B+-Tree
 Insertion and deletion more complicated than in B+-Trees
 Implementation is harder than B+-Trees.

12.What is Hashing? Explain static hashing and dynamic hashing with an

example? (May 2018)
(OR)
Explain the distinction between static hashing and dynamic hashing?
Discuss the relative merits of each technique in database applications? (Dec
2017)

Static hashing:
A bucket is a unit of storage containing one or more records.
In a hash file organization we obtain the bucket of a record directly from its search-key
value using a hash function.
Hash function h is a function from the set of all search-key values K to the set of
all bucket addresses B.
Hash function is used to locate records for access, insertion as well as deletion.
Example:
-There are 10 buckets,
-The hash function returns the sum of the binary representations of the characters
modulo 10
– E.g. h(Perryridge) = 5 h(Round Hill) = 3 h(Brighton) = 3
Dynamic hashing:
• Good for database that grows and shrinks in size
• Allows the hash function to be modified dynamically
• Extendable hashing – one form of dynamic hashing
– Hash function generates values over a large range — typically b-bit
integers, with b=32.
– At any time use only a prefix of the hash function to index into a table of
bucket addresses.
– Let the length of the prefix be i bits, 0  i  32.
– Bucket address table size = 2i. Initially i = 0
– Value of i grows and shrinks as the size of the database grows and shrinks.
– Multiple entries in the bucket address table may point to a bucket.
– Thus, actual number of buckets is < 2i
 – The number of buckets also changes dynamically due to coalescing and
splitting of buckets.

General Extendable Hash Structure

In this structure, i2 = i3 = i, whereas i1 = i – 1 (see next slide for details)

Use of Extendable Hash Structure

• To locate the bucket containing search-key Kj:
3. Compute h(Kj) = X
4. Use the first i high order bits of X as a displacement into bucket address table, and
follow the pointer to appropriate bucket
Updates in Extendable Hash Structure
• To insert a record with search-key value Kj
– follow same procedure as look-up and locate the bucket, say j.
– If there is room in the bucket j insert record in the bucket.
– Overflow buckets used instead in some cases.
• To delete a key value,
– locate it in its bucket and remove it.
– The bucket itself can be removed if it becomes empty
– Coalescing of buckets can be done
Decreasing bucket address table size is also possible

13. Why data dictionary storage is important? (Nov 2019)

A data dictionary contains metadata i.e data about the database. The data dictionary is very important as it
contains information such as what is in the database, who is allowed to access it, where is the database
physically stored etc. The users of the database normally don't interact with the data dictionary, it is only
handled by the database administrators.
The data dictionary in general contains information about the following:
  Names of all the database tables and their schemas.
 Details about all the tables in the database, such as their owners, their security constraints, when
they were created etc.
 Physical information about the tables such as where they are stored and how.
 Table constraints such as primary key attributes, foreign key information etc.
 Information about the database views that are visible.
This is a data dictionary describing a table that contains employee details.

Field Name Data Field Size for Description Example

Type display

Employee Integer 10 Unique ID of each 1645000001

Number employee

Name Text 20 Name of the David

employee Heston

Date of Date/Time 10 DOB of Employee 08/03/1995

Birth

Phone Integer 10 Phone number of 6583648648

Number employee

The different types of data dictionary are:

Active Data Dictionary
If the structure of the database or its specifications change at any point of time, it should be reflected in the
data dictionary. This is the responsibility of the database management system in which the data dictionary
resides.
So, the data dictionary is automatically updated by the database management system when any changes are
made in the database. This is known as an active data dictionary as it is self updating.
Passive Data Dictionary
This is not as useful or easy to handle as an active data dictionary. A passive data dictionary is maintained
separately to the database whose contents are stored in the dictionary. That means that if the database is
modified the database dictionary is not automatically updated as in the case of Active Data Dictionary.
So, the passive data dictionary has to be manually updated to match the database. This needs careful
handling or else the database and data dictionary are out of sync.
 14. With simple algorithms explain the computing of Nester-loop join and
Block Nested-loop join? (Nov 2019)

Computation of Joins :
When we want to join two tables, say P and Q, each tuple in P has to be compared with each tuple in Q to
test if the join condition is satisfied. If the condition is satisfied, the corresponding tuples are concatenated,
eliminating duplicate fields and appended to the result relation. Consequently, this is the most expensive
operation.
The common approaches for computing joins are −

Nested-loop Approach
This is the conventional join approach. It can be illustrated through the following pseudocode (Tables P
and Q, with tuples tuple_p and tuple_q and joining attribute a) −
For each tuple_p in P
For each tuple_q in Q
If tuple_p.a = tuple_q.a Then
Concatenate tuple_p and tuple_q and append to Result
End If
Next tuple_q
Next tuple-p

 Basically, for each block of the outer table (r), scan the entire inner table (s). „
 Requires quadratic time, O(n2) „
 Improved when buffer is used.
Example of Nested Loop Join:

Sort-merge Approach
In this approach, the two tables are individually sorted based upon the joining attribute and then the sorted
tables are merged. External sorting techniques are adopted since the number of records is very high and
cannot be accommodated in the memory. Once the individual tables are sorted, one page each of the sorted
tables are brought to the memory, merged based upon the joining attribute and the joined tuples are written
out.

Hash-join Approach
This approach comprises of two phases: partitioning phase and probing phase. In partitioning phase, the
tables P and Q are broken into two sets of disjoint partitions. A common hash function is decided upon.
This hash function is used to assign tuples to partitions. In the probing phase, tuples in a partition of P are
compared with the tuples of corresponding partition of Q. If they match, then they are written out.
 UNIT- 5

ADVANCED TOPICS

PART-A

1. Define Distributed Database Management Systems.(Dec 2016, May 2018)

A distributed database management system consists of loosely coupled sites(computer) that share
no physical components and each site is associated with a database system.
2. What are various fragmentations? State Various fragmentations with example?(Dec 2017)

There are two types of fragmentation. They are Horizontal Fragmentation and Vertical
Fragmentation.
Horizontal fragmentation :
Splits the relation by assigning each tuple of r to one or more fragments
relation r is partitioned into a number of subsets, r1 ,r2,…..rn and can be
reconstruct the original relation using union of all fragments, that is
r = r1 U r2 U……U rn
Vertical fragmentation :
– Splits the relation by decomposing scheme R of relation and reconstruct the
original relation by using natural join of all fragments. that is
r = r1 r2 …… rn

3. Give an example of two phase commit protocol? (Dec 2015)

Client want all or nothing transactions and Transfer either happens or nothing at all.

4. How does the concept of an object in the object oriented model differ from the concept of an
entity in an entity relationship model? (Dec 2016)

 An entity is simply a collection of variables or data items.

 An object is an encapsulation of data as well as the methods(code) to operate on the data
 The data
member of an object are directly visible only to its methods.
 The outside
world can gain access to the object’s data only by passing pre-defined messages to it, and
these messages are implemented by the methods.

5. State the functions of XML Schema? (Dec2017)

The XML Schema are used to represent the structure of XML document.
The goal or purpose of XML Schema is to define the building blocks of an XML document.
 These can be used as an alternative to XML DTD.

6. Define XQuery?

It is similar to SQL to database.

It is used to Query XML database.
XQuery is supported by all major databases
Main task is to get information out of XML databases.
7. Differentiate Database Management System and Information Retrieval System?

Database Management System Information Retrieval System

It makes use of structured data It makes use of unstructured data

It is schema driven There is no fixed schema in IR system

Relational database model is used Free Form query model is used

Result based on exact matching Result based on appropriate matching

8. What are the advantages of distributed databases? (May 2008)

 There is fast data processing as several sites participate in request processing.

 Reliability and Availability of the system is high
 It Possess reduced operating cost
 It is easier to expand the system by adding more sites
 It has improved sharing ability and local autonomy
9. List out the reasons for development of distributed databases? (May 2006)

Following are the reasons for development of distributed databases-

 To control the data present at geographically different sites
 To obtain highly available and reliable data processing systems.

10. What are two approaches to store a relation in the distributed databases? (May 2004)

Replication: System maintains multiple copies of data, stored in different sites, for fast retrieval
and fault tolerance.
Fragmentation: Relation is partitioned into several fragments stored in distinct sites.

11. Differentiate between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Schema?

 Homogeneous Schema Heterogeneous Schema

It shares global schema It has different schemas

Each site provides part of its autonomy in Each site maintains its own right to change
terms of right to change or software the schema or software.
Due to same schema, there is no problem in Due to different schemas, there are lot of
query processing. problems in query processing.

12.What are the advantages of fragmentation?

 It allows parallel processing on fragments of a relation

 It allows a relation to be split so that tuples are located where they are most frequently
accessed.

13.What is meant by object-oriented data model?

The object-oriented paradigm is based on encapsulation of data and code related to an
object in to a single unit, whose contents are not visible to the outside world.

14.What is the major advantage of object-oriented programming paradigm?

The ability to modify the definition of an object without affecting the rest of the system
is the major advantage of object-oriented programming paradigm.

15.What are the methods used in object-oriented programming paradigm?

*read-only
*update

16.What is the main difference between read-only and update methods?

A read-only method does not affect the values of a variable in an object, whereas an
update method may change the values of the variables.

17.What is the use of keyword ISA?

The use of keyword ISA is to indicate that a class is a specialization of another class.

18.Differentiate sub-class and super-class?

The specialization of a class is called subclasses.eg: employee is a subclass of person and
teller is a subclass of employee.Conversely, employee is a super class of teller, and
person is a super class of employee.

19.What is substitutability?
Any method of a class-say A can equally well be invoked with any object belonging
to any subclasses B of A. This characteristic leads to code reuse, since the messages,
methods, and functions do not have to be written again for objects of class B.

20.What is multiple inheritance?

Multiple inheritance permits a class to inherit variables and methods from multiple super
classes.

21.What is DAG?
The class-subclass relationship is represented by a directed acyclic graph.eg: employees
can be temporary or permanenet.we may create subclasses temporary and permanenet, of the
class employee.

22.What is disadvantage of multiple inheritance?

There is potential ambiguity if the same variable or method can be inherited from more
than one superclass.eg: student class may have a variable dept identifying a student's
department, and the teacher class may correspondingly have a variable dept identifying a
teacher's department.

23.What is object identity?

An object retains its identity even if some or all the values of variables or definitions of
methods change overtime.

24.What are the several forms of identity?

*Value
*Name
*Built-in

25.What is a value?
A data value is used for identity. This form of identity is used in relational
systems.eg: The primary key value of a tuple identifies the tuple.

26.What is a Name?
A user-supplied name is used for identity. This form of identity is used for files in file
systems. The user gives each file a name that uniquely identifies it, regardless of its contents.

27.What is a Built-in?
A notation of identity is built-into the data model or programming language and no user-
supplied identifier is required. This form of identity is used in objectoriented systems.

28.What is meant by object identifiers?

Object-oriented systems use an object identifier to identify objects. Object identifiers are
unique: that is each object has a single identifier, and no two objects have the same identifier.

29.What are composite objects?

Objects that contain other objects are called complex objects or composite objects.

30.What is object containment?

References between objects can be used to model different real-world concepts.

31.Why containment is important in oosystems?

Containment is an important concept in oosystems because it allows different users
to view data at different granularities.

32.Define object-relational systems?

Systems that provide object-oriented extensions to relational systems are called object-
relational systems.

33.How persistent programming languages differ from traditional programming

languages?
Database languages differ from traditional programming languages in that they directly
manipulate data that are persistent-that is, data that continue to exist even after the
program terminated. Relation in a database and tuples in a relation are examples of
persistent data. In contrast, the only persistent data that traditional programming languages
directly manipulate are files.

34.What is nested relational model?

The nested relational model is an extension of relational model in which domains may be
either atomic or relation valued.

35.List some instances of collection types?

*sets
*arrays
*multisets

36.How to create values of structured type?

Constructor functions are used to create values of structured types. A function with the
same name as a structured type is a constructor function for the structured type.

37.Define XML Database.

An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be stored in
XML format. These data can then be queried, exported and serialized into the desired format.
XML databases are usually associated with document-oriented databases.

38.What is a homogeneous distributed database?

In homogeneous distributed databases, all sites have identical database management
system software, are aware of one another, and agree to cooperate in processing user's
requests.

39.What is a heterogeneous distributed database?

In a heterogeneous distributed database, different sites may use different schemas, and
different dbms s/w.The sites may not be aware of one another, and they may provide
only limited facilities for cooperation in transaction processing.

40.Define statistical database.

A statistical database is a database used for statistical analysis purposes. It is
an OLAP (online analytical processing), instead of OLTP (online transaction processing)
system. Modern decision, and classical statistical databases are often closer to the relational
model than the multidimensional model commonly used in OLAP systems today.

41.What is data acquisition?

Every data warehouse has a source for acquiring data. The vast majority of the data
warehouse data is derived from the organizational operational data. Desired data is
extracted, filtered, translated and integrated into the storage environment.

42.What are the two approaches to store relations in distributed database?

*Replication *Fragmentation
 43.Define Database privilege?
It is a right to execute a particular type of SQL statement or to access another
users object
Eg. Right to connect to database.
Right to create a table
Right to select rows from another users table
Right to execute another users stored procedure.

44.What is threat?
A threat is any situation, event or personnel that will adversely affect the database
security and smooth and efficient functioning of organization.
A threat may be caused by a situation or event involving a person, action or
circumstance that is likely to bring harm to organization

45.Define Database security.

Database security concerns the use of a broad range of information security controls to
protect databases (potentially including the data, the database applications or stored functions,
the database systems, the database servers and the associated network links) against
compromises of their confidentiality, integrity and availability.

46.Mention the users of database.

Database administrators
Security officers
Network administrators
Application developers
Application administrators
DB users

47.What does database security refer to?

Database security refers to the protection from unauthorized access and
malicious destruction or alteration.

48.List some security violations (or) name any forms of malicious acess.
Unauthorized Reading of data
Unauthorized modification of data
Unauthorized destruction of data.
 49.List the types of authorization.
Read authorization
Write authorization
Update authorization
Drop authorization

50.What is authorization graph?

Passing of authorization from one user to another can be represented by an authorization
graph.

51.List out various user authorization to modify the database Schema.

Index Authorization
Resource authorization
Alteration authorization
Drop authorization

52.What are audit trails?

An audit trail is a log of all changes to the database along with information such as
which user performed the change and when the change was performed.

53.What is Benefits of Database Encryption?

Ensure guaranteed access to encrypted data by authorized users by automating storage
and back-up for mission critical master encryption keys.Simplify data privacy compliance
obligations and reporting activities through the use of a security-certified encryption and key
management to enforce critical best practices and other standards of due care.

54.Name the various privileges in SQL?

Delete
Select
Insert
update

55.Mention the various user privileges.

All privileges directly granted to the user or role.
All privileges granted to roles that have been granted to the user or role.

56.Give the limitations of SQL authorization.

The code for checking authorization becomes intermixed with the rest of the application code.
Implementing authorization through application code rather than specifying it
declaratively in SQL makes it hard to ensure the absence of loopholes.

57.What does authentication refer? List some authentication techniques.

Authentication refers to the task of verifying the identity of a person.

authentication techniques:
Challenge response scheme
 Digital Signatures
Non repudiation

58.Define Crawling and indexing the web. (Nov’ 2014)

Web Crawling is the process of search engines combing through web pages in order to
properly index them. These “web crawlers” systematically crawl pages and look at the keywords
contained on the page, the kind of content, all the links on the page, and then returns that
information to the search engine’s server for indexing. Then they follow all the hyperlinks on the
website to get to other websites. When a search engine user enters a query, the search engine will
go to its index and return the most relevant search results based on the keywords in the search
term. Web crawling is an automated process and provides quick, up to date data.

59.Define Relevance Ranking. (Nov’2014)

A system in which the search engine tries to determine the theme of a site that a link is coming
from.

60. Write about the four types (Star, Snowflake, Galaxy and Fact Constellation) of Data
warehouse schemas. (May’2015)
1. Star schema: The star schema architecture is the simplest data warehouse schema. It
is called a star schema because the diagram resembles a star, with points radiating from a
center. The center of the star consists of fact table and the points of the star are the
dimension tables.
2. Fact constellation: is a measure of online analytical processing, which a collection of
multiple fact tables is sharing dimension tables, viewed as a collection of stars. This is an
improvement over Star schema.
3. Snowflake schema: In computing, a snowflake schema is a logical arrangement of
tables in a multidimensional database such that the entity relationship diagram resembles
asnowflake shape. The snowflake schema is represented by centralized fact tables which
are connected to multiple dimensions..
4. Galaxy Schema : It is the combination of both star schema and snowflake schema.

61. Define Threats and Risks ( May 2015, Dec 2017)

Threats: Accidental loss and corruption, and from deliberate unauthorized attempts to access or
alter that data. Loss of integrity, Loss of availability and Loss of confidentiality.
Risks: Unauthorized or unintended activity or misuse by authorized database users, database
administrators, or network/systems managers, or by unauthorized users or hackers.

53. Define Association Rule Mining. (May 2015)

Association rule mining is discovering frequent patterns, associations and correlations among
items which are meaningful to the users and can generate strong rules on the basis of these
frequent patterns, which helps in decision support system.
 62. List the types of privileges used in database access control. (Nov’2015)
Types of privileges used in database access control are Read, Write and Update.

63. Can we have more than one constructor in a class? If yes, explain the need for such a
situation. (Nov/Dec 2015)
Yes, default constructor and constructor with parameter.

64. Explain Data Classification. (May/June 2016)

Classification is a data mining function that assigns items in a collection to target categories
or classes. The goal of classification is to accurately predict the target class for each case in
the data. For example, a classification model could be used to identify loan applicants as low,
medium, or high credit risks.

65. Mention the Advantages of Data Warehousing. (May 2016)

Data warehouses tend to have a very high query success as they have complete control over the
four main areas of data management systems.
a. Clean data
b. Indexes: multiple types
c. Query processing: multiple options
d. Security: data and access
e. Easy report creation.
f. Enhanced access to data and information.

66. Mention the Disadvantages of Data Warehousing.

There are considerable disadvantages involved in moving data from multiple, often highly
disparate, data sources to one data warehouse that translate into long implementation time, high
cost, lack of flexibility, dated information, and limited capabilities.
a. Preparation may be time consuming.
b. Compatibility with existing systems.
c. Security issues.
d. Long initial implementation time and associated high cost
e. Limited flexibility of use and types of users
f. Difficult to accommodate changes in data types and ranges, data source schema,
indexes and queries

67. Mention the Disadvantages of Data Warehousing.

A distributed database (DDB) is a collection of multiple, logically interrelated databases
distributedover a computer network. A distributed database management system (D–
DBMS) is the software that manages the DDB and provides an access mechanism that makes
this distribution transparent to the users.

68. How does the concept of an object in object oriented model differ from ER model in
differ from the concept of an entity relationship model. (Nov’2016)
The object-oriented paradigm is based on encapsulation of data and code related to an
object in to a single unit, whose contents are not visible to the outside world. The main terms
are i) class ii) object iii) association and iv) attributes.
 ERD stands for Entity Relationship Diagram. It works as an important component of a
conceptual data model. ERD is often used to graphically represent the logical structure of a
database. The main terms are i) entity ii) instance of an entity iii) relationship and iv)
attributes.

69.How are transactions performed in object oriented database? (Nov 2018)

Database management systems must support atomic transactions. Object-oriented databases are
geared toward engineering and design applications. Nested transactions provide a more direct
support of project development for these applications.

70.How spatial databases are more helpful then active databases? (Nov 2018)

A spatial database is a database that is optimized for storing and querying data that represents
objects defined in a geometric space. Most spatial databases allow the representation of simple
geometric objects. Such databases can be useful for websites that wish to identify the locations of
their visitors for customization.

The spatial database has proper ways to manage and store spatial objects and spatial relationships.
Therefore, access a spatial database to process a spatial query is more efficient.

71. Mention few features of Multimedia Databases? (May 2019)

A Multimedia system has four basic characteristics:

 Multimedia systems must be computer controlled.
 Multimedia systems are integrated.
 The information they handle must be represented digitally.
 The interface to the final presentation of media is usually interactive.

72. Compare sequential access devices versus random access devices with an example? (May
2019)
Sequential Access to a data file means that the computer system reads or writes information to the file
sequentially, starting from the beginning of the file and proceeding step by step. Random Access to a file
means that the computer system can read or write information anywhere in the data file. This type of
operation is also called “Direct Access”.
Sequential drive stores files and data in a specific order, while a random access drive puts them all over the
place.
Example:
The old fashioned tape drive is a sequential drive. Although tape drives are no longer used in modern PCs,
some companies still use them to create durable backup archives.
Meanwhile, a modern disk drive can be programmed to store data either sequentially or through random
access. CDs and DVDs can also use both methods. A music CD, for example, is sequential, but one with a
database on it might use random access in order to fit more data onto the disk.
73. List information types of documents necessary for relevance ranking of documents in IR? (Nov
2019)

Relevant document means a document that— Based on 8 documents 8. relevant document means any
invoice, account, drawing, plan, technical specification or other document relating to the approved
operation.

74.What one could understand from allocation schema? (Nov 2019)

The allocation schema is a description of where the data(fragments)are to be located, taking account of any
replication.
PART –B

1.Briefly explain about Two phase commit and three phase commit protocols. (Nov’ 2014,
May 2015 & May 2016)
(OR)
Explain two phase commit protocol with an example?(Nov 2017)

Two phase commit protocol

• Assumes fail-stop model – failed sites simply stop working, and do not cause any other
harm,
such as sending incorrect messages to other sites.
• Execution of the protocol is initiated by the coordinator after the last step of the
transaction has been reached.
• The protocol involves all the local sites at which the transaction executed
• Let T be a transaction initiated at site Si, and let the transaction coordinator at Si be Ci.

Phase 1: Obtaining a Decision (prepare)

• Coordinator asks all participants to prepare to commit transaction Ti.
– Ci adds the records <prepare T> to the log and forces log to stable storage
– sends prepare T messages to all sites at which T executed
• Upon receiving message, transaction manager at site determines if it can commit the
transaction
– if not, add a record <no T> to the log and send abort T message to Ci
– if the transaction can be committed, then:
– add the record <ready T> to the log
– force all records for T to stable storage
– send ready T message to Ci

Phase 2: Recording the Decision (commit)

• T can be committed of Ci received a ready T message from all the participating sites:
otherwise T must be aborted.
• Coordinator adds a decision record, <commit T> or <abort T>, to the log and forces
record onto stable storage. Once the record stable storage it is irrevocable (even if failures
occur)
• Coordinator sends a message to each participant informing it of the decision (commit or
 abort)
• Participants take appropriate action locally.

Possible Failures
Site Failure
Coordinator Failure
Network Partition

Three phase commit protocols.

Assumptions:
– No network partitioning
– At any point, at least one site must be up.
– At most K sites (participants as well as coordinator) can fail
Phase 1: Obtaining Preliminary Decision: Identical to 2PC Phase 1.
– Every site is ready to commit if instructed to do so
– Under 2PC each site is obligated to wait for decision from coordinator
– Under 3PC, knowledge of pre-commit decision can be used to commit despite
coordinator failure

Phase 2: Recording the Preliminary Decision

Coordinator adds a decision record (<abort T> or <precommit T>) in its log and forces
record to stable storage. Coordinator sends a message to each participant informing it of
the decision.

Participant records decision in its log

– If abort decision reached then participant aborts locally
– If pre-commit decision reached then participant replies with
<acknowledge T>

Phase 3: Recording Decision in the Database

Executed only if decision in phase 2 was to pre commit
Coordinator collects acknowledgments. It sends <commit T> message to the participants
as soon as it receives K acknowledgments.
Coordinator adds the record <commit T> in its log and forces record to stable storage.
Coordinator sends a message to each participant to <commit T>.
Participants take appropriate action locally
Under 3PC, knowledge of pre-commit decision can be used to commit despite
coordinator failure
 Avoids blocking problem as long as < K sites fail

Drawbacks:
 higher overheads
 Assumptions may not be satisfied in practice.

2.Discuss in detail about Distributed Databases? (May 2019, Nov 2019)

(OR)
Explain with diagrammatic illustration the architecture of distributed database management
system? (May 2018)
In distributed database system data reside in several location where as centralized
database system the data reside in single location
Classification
- Homogenous distributed DB
- Heterogeneous distributed DB
• Homogenous distributed DB
– All sites have identical database management software, are aware of one another.
– Agree to cooperate in processing users’ request.
• Heterogeneous distributed DB
– different sites may use different schemas and different DBMS software.
– The sites may not be aware of one another
– Provide only limited facilities for cooperation in transaction processing.

• Consider a relation r, there are two approaches to store this relation in the distributed DB.
– Replication
– Fragmentation
• Replication
– The system maintains several identical replicas(copies) of the relation at different
site.
– Full replication- copy is stored in every site in the system.
• Advantages and disadvantages
– Availability
– Increased parallelism
Increased overhead update
• Fragmentation
– The system partitions the relation into several fragment and stores each fragment
at different sites
– Two approaches
• Horizontal fragmentation
• Vertical fragmentation

Horizontal fragmentation
Splits the relation by assigning each tuple of r to one or more fragments
relation r is partitioned into a number of subsets, r1 ,r2,…..rn and can be
reconstruct the original relation using union of all fragments, that is
r = r1 U r2 U……U rn
• Vertical fragmentation
– Splits the relation by decomposing scheme R of relation and reconstruct the
original relation by using natural join of all fragments. that is
r = r1 r2 …… rn
3.Write short notes on Spatial Databases. (Nov’2014, Nov’2015 , Nov’2016 &

Nov 2017 & May 2019)

Spatial databases:

Spatial databases that keeps track of objects in an multidimensional space.

eg:- * Cartographic databases
* Meteorological databases
Cartographic databases:
That stores maps include two dimensional spatial descriptions of their objects from
countries and states to rivers,cities,roads,seas and so on.
Applications of these databases:environmental,emergency and battle management.

Metrological databases:
For weather information, are three dimentional,since temperatures and other
meteorological information are related to three dimensional spatial points.
Spatial characteristics:
The two dimensional geometric concepts such as pointers ,lines and lines
segments,circles,polygon,arcs are used to spatial characteristics of objects.
Spatial operations:
Spatial operations are needed to operate on objects.
eg: To compute the distance between two objects.

Spatial boolean conditions:

To check whether two objects spatially overlap.
Emergergency management applications:
Static spatial characteristics:
 Some of these objects generally have static spatial charatceristics,such as streets and
highway, water pumps, police stations and hospitals.

Dynamic spatial characteristics that change over time, such as police vehicles, ambulances or
fire trucks.
Categories of spatial queries:
1. Range query

2. Nearest neighbor query

3.Spatial joins or overlays

1. Range query:

Finds the objects of a particular type that are within a given spatial area or within a particular
distance from a given location.
eg:find all schools within the Bombay city area.
2.Nearest neighbor query or adjacency:
It finds an object of a particular type that is closer to a given location.
eg:find the school that is closest to your house.
3.Spatial joins or overlays:

The objects are two types based on some spatial condition, such as the objects intersecting
or overlapping spatially or being within a certain distance of one another .
eg:- Find aall cities that fall on a major highway or finds all homes that are within two miles of a
lake.
Spatial storage structures:
1.R-trees
2.quad trees
1.R-tree:

R-trees can easily answer queries, such as find all objects in a given area by limiting the
tree search to those subtrees whose rectangles intersect with the area given in the query.
space

subspace 1 subspace 2
 area area
subspace :- rectangular sub spaced with needed objects.

2. Quad tree:
Quad tree generally divide each space subspace into equally sized areas .Each subspaces used to identify the
positions of various objects.

4.Compare and contrast object oriented and XML databases? (Dec 2018)

Object oriented Databases:

An object-oriented database is a database that subscribes to a model with information

represented by objects. Object-oriented databases are a niche offering in the relational database
management system (RDBMS) field and are not as successful or well-known as mainstream
database engines.

As the name implies, the main feature of object-oriented databases is allowing the definition of
objects, which are different from normal database objects. Objects, in an object-oriented database,
reference the ability to develop a product, then define and name it. The object can then be
referenced, or called later, as a unit without having to go into its complexities. This is very similar
to objects used in object-oriented programming.

A real-life parallel to objects is a car engine. It is composed of several parts: the main cylinder
block, the exhaust system, intake manifold and so on. Each of these is a standalone component; but
when machined and bolted into one object, they are now collectively referred to as an engine.
Similarly, when programming one can define several components, such as a vertical line
intersecting a perpendicular horizontal line while both lines have a graded measurement. This
object can then be collectively labeled a graph. When utilizing the ability to plot components, there
is no need to first define a graph; but rather the instance of the created graph can be called.

Examples of object-oriented database engines include db4o, Smalltalk and Cache.

XML Databases:

An XML database is a database that stores data in XML format. This type of database is suited for
businesses with data in XML format and for situations where XML storage is a practical way to
archive data, metadata and other digital resources.
This data can be queried, transformed, exported and returned to a calling system. XML databases
are a flavor of document-oriented databases which are in turn a category of NoSQL database.
There are a number of reasons to directly specify data in XML or other document formats such
as JSON. For XML in particular, they include:

 An enterprise may have a lot of XML in an existing standard format

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 Data may need to be exposed or ingested as XML, so using another format such as
relational forces double-modeling of the data
 XML is very well suited to sparse data, deeply nested data and mixed content (such as text
with embedded markup tags)
 XML is human readable whereas relational tables require expertise to access
 Metadata is often available as XML
 Semantic web data is available as XML
XML enabled databases typically offer one or more of the following approaches to storing XML
within the traditional relational structure:

1. XML is stored into a CLOB (Character large object)

2. XML is `shredded` into a series of Tables based on a Schema
5.Explain about Document Type Definition and XML Schema? (Dec 2016 & Dec 2018)
(OR)
Brief on the methods to store XML Documents?(NOV 2019)

DTD:
The XML Document Type Declaration, commonly known as DTD, is a way to describe XML language
precisely. DTDs check vocabulary and validity of the structure of XML documents against grammatical
rules of appropriate XML language.
An XML DTD can be either specified inside the document, or it can be kept in a separate document and
then liked separately.
Syntax:
Basic syntax of a DTD is as follows −
<!DOCTYPE element DTD identifier
[
declaration1
declaration2
........
]>
In the above syntax,
 The DTD starts with <!DOCTYPE delimiter.
 An element tells the parser to parse the document from the specified root element.
 DTD identifier is an identifier for the document type definition, which may be the path to a file on
the system or URL to a file on the internet. If the DTD is pointing to external path, it is
called External Subset.
 The square brackets [ ] enclose an optional list of entity declarations called Internal Subset.
Internal DTD:

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A DTD is referred to as an internal DTD if elements are declared within the XML files. To refer it as
internal DTD, standalone attribute in XML declaration must be set to yes. This means, the declaration
works independent of an external source.

Syntax:
Following is the syntax of internal DTD −
<!DOCTYPE root-element [element-declarations]>
where root-element is the name of root element and element-declarations is where you declare the
elements.

Example:
Following is a simple example of internal DTD −
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "yes" ?>
<!DOCTYPE address [
<!ELEMENT address (name,company,phone)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT company (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT phone (#PCDATA)>
]>

<address>
<name>Tanmay Patil</name>
<company>TutorialsPoint</company>
<phone>(011) 123-4567</phone>
</address>
Let us go through the above code −
Start Declaration − Begin the XML declaration with the following statement.
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "yes" ?>
DTD − Immediately after the XML header, the document type declaration follows, commonly referred to
as the DOCTYPE −
<!DOCTYPE address [
The DOCTYPE declaration has an exclamation mark (!) at the start of the element name. The DOCTYPE
informs the parser that a DTD is associated with this XML document.
DTD Body − The DOCTYPE declaration is followed by body of the DTD, where you declare elements,
attributes, entities, and notations.
<!ELEMENT address (name,company,phone)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT company (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT phone_no (#PCDATA)>

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Several elements are declared here that make up the vocabulary of the <name> document. <!ELEMENT
name (#PCDATA)> defines the element name to be of type "#PCDATA". Here #PCDATA means parse-
able text data.
End Declaration − Finally, the declaration section of the DTD is closed using a closing bracket and a
closing angle bracket (]>). This effectively ends the definition, and thereafter, the XML document follows
immediately.

Rules:
 The document type declaration must appear at the start of the document (preceded only by the
XML header) − it is not permitted anywhere else within the document.
 Similar to the DOCTYPE declaration, the element declarations must start with an exclamation
mark.
 The Name in the document type declaration must match the element type of the root element.
External DTD:
In external DTD elements are declared outside the XML file. They are accessed by specifying the system
attributes which may be either the legal .dtd file or a valid URL. To refer it as external
DTD, standalone attribute in the XML declaration must be set as no. This means, declaration includes
information from the external source.

Syntax:
Following is the syntax for external DTD −
<!DOCTYPE root-element SYSTEM "file-name">
where file-name is the file with .dtd extension.

Example:
The following example shows external DTD usage −
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE address SYSTEM "address.dtd">
<address>
<name>Tanmay Patil</name>
<company>TutorialsPoint</company>
<phone>(011) 123-4567</phone>
</address>
The content of the DTD file address.dtd is as shown −
<!ELEMENT address (name,company,phone)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT company (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT phone (#PCDATA)>
Types
You can refer to an external DTD by using either system identifiers or public identifiers.
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System Identifiers
A system identifier enables you to specify the location of an external file containing DTD declarations.
Syntax is as follows −
<!DOCTYPE name SYSTEM "address.dtd" [...]>
As you can see, it contains keyword SYSTEM and a URI reference pointing to the location of the
document.

Public Identifiers:
Public identifiers provide a mechanism to locate DTD resources and is written as follows −
<!DOCTYPE name PUBLIC "-//Beginning XML//DTD Address Example//EN">
As you can see, it begins with keyword PUBLIC, followed by a specialized identifier. Public identifiers
are used to identify an entry in a catalog. Public identifiers can follow any format, however, a commonly
used format is called Formal Public Identifiers, or FPIs.
XML SCHEMA

XML Schema is commonly known as XML Schema Definition (XSD). It is used to describe and validate
the structure and the content of XML data. XML schema defines the elements, attributes and data types.
Schema element supports Namespaces. It is similar to a database schema that describes the data in a
database.
Syntax:
We need to declare a schema in your XML document as follows −

Example:
The following example shows how to use schema −

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

<xs:schema xmlns:xs = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name = "contact">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name = "name" type = "xs:string" />
<xs:element name = "company" type = "xs:string" />
<xs:element name = "phone" type = "xs:int" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
The basic idea behind XML Schemas is that they describe the legitimate format that an XML document
can take.
Elements:

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 XML - Elements are the building blocks of XML document. An element can be defined within an XSD as
follows −
<xs:element name = "x" type = "y"/>
Definition Types
You can define XML schema elements in the following ways −

Simple Type:
Simple type element is used only in the context of the text. Some of the predefined simple types are:
xs:integer, xs:boolean, xs:string, xs:date. For example −
<xs:element name = "phone_number" type = "xs:int" />

Complex Type:
A complex type is a container for other element definitions. This allows you to specify which child
elements an element can contain and to provide some structure within your XML documents. For example
−
<xs:element name = "Address">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name = "name" type = "xs:string" />
<xs:element name = "company" type = "xs:string" />
<xs:element name = "phone" type = "xs:int" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
In the above example, Address element consists of child elements. This is a container for
other <xs:element> definitions, that allows to build a simple hierarchy of elements in the XML document.

Global Types:
With the global type, you can define a single type in your document, which can be used by all other
references. For example, suppose you want to generalize the person and company for different addresses
of the company. In such case, you can define a general type as follows −
<xs:element name = "AddressType">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name = "name" type = "xs:string" />
<xs:element name = "company" type = "xs:string" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Now let us use this type in our example as follows −

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 <xs:element name = "Address1">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name = "address" type = "AddressType" />
<xs:element name = "phone1" type = "xs:int" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:element name = "Address2">

<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name = "address" type = "AddressType" />
<xs:element name = "phone2" type = "xs:int" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Instead of having to define the name and the company twice (once for Address1 and once for Address2),
we now have a single definition. This makes maintenance simpler, i.e., if you decide to add "Postcode"
elements to the address, you need to add them at just one place.
Attributes:
Attributes in XSD provide extra information within an element. Attributes have name and type property as
shown below −
<xs:attribute name = "x" type = "y"/>

6.Give XML representation of Bank Management System? (Dec 2018)

Compared to storage of data in a database, the XML representation may be inefficient, since tag names are repeated

throughout the document. However, in spite of this disadvantage, an XML representation has significant advantages

when it is used to exchange data, for example, as part of a message:

 First, the presence of the tags makes the message self-documenting; that is, a schema need not be
consulted to understand the meaning of the text. We can readily read the fragment above, for example.
 Second, the format of the document is not rigid. For example, if some sender adds additional
information, such as a tag last-accessed noting the last date on which an account was accessed, the
recipient of the XML data may simply ignore the tag. The ability to recognize and ignore unexpected
tags allows the format of the data to evolve over time, without invalidating existing applications.
 Finally, since the XML format is widely accepted, a wide variety of tools are available to assist in
its processing, including browser software and database tools.

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Just as SQL is the dominant language for querying relational data, XML is becoming the dominant format for data

exchange.
<bank>
<account>
<account-number> A-101 </account-number>
<branch-name> Downtown </branch-name>
<balance> 500 </balance>
</account>
<account>
<account-number> A-102 </account-number>
<branch-name> Perryridge </branch-name>
<balance> 400 </balance>
</account>
<account>
<account-number> A-201 </account-number>
<branch-name> Brighton </branch-name>
<balance> 900 </balance>
</account>
<customer>
<customer-name> Johnson </customer-name>
<customer-street> Alma </customer-street>
<customer-city> Palo Alto </customer-city>
</customer>
<customer>
<customer-name> Hayes </customer-name>
<customer-street> Main </customer-street>
<customer-city> Harrison </customer-city>
</customer>
<depositor>
<account-number> A-101 </account-number>
<customer-name> Johnson </customer-name>
</depositor>
<depositor>
<account-number> A-201 </account-number>
<customer-name> Johnson </customer-name>
</depositor>
<depositor>
<account-number> A-102 </account-number>
<customer-name> Hayes </customer-name>
</depositor>
</bank>

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 7.Explain the necessary characteristics a system must satisfy to be considered as an object
oriented database management system? (May 2018)

An object-oriented database management system (OODBMS) is a database management system

that supports the creation and modeling of data as objects. OODBMS also includes support for
classes of objects and the inheritance of class properties, and incorporates methods, subclasses and
their objects.

The main features of object-oriented database management are:

 Capabilities & Scalability.
 Standard Persistence APIs
 Performance and Speed.
 Ease of Use and Learning.
 Object Model & Data Types.
 Primary Keys.
 Query Support.
 Multi User Support.

Advantages of OODBMS:

Extensibility. OODBMSs allow new data types to be built from existing types. The ability to factor
out common properties of several classes and form them into a superclass that can be shared with
subclasses can greatly reduce redundancy within system is regarded as one of the main advantages
of object orientation.

OODBMS allow the integration of databases, operating systems, spreadsheets, languages, AI

systems, word processors and other objects or applications. They enable the referential sharing of
products and applications, which is accomplished through inheritance and object identity.
An object-oriented database system must satisfy two criteria: it should be a DBMS, and it should be an
object-oriented system, i.e., to the extent possible, it should be consistent with the current crop of object-
oriented programming languages.

The first criterion translates into five features: persistence, secondary storage management,
concurrency, recovery and an ad hoc query facility.

The second one translates into eight features: complex objects, object identity, encapsulation, types or
classes, inheritance, overriding combined with late binding, extensibility and computational completeness.

8.Write short notes on Multimedia databases. (Nov’2015 , Nov 2017 & May 2018)

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 MULTIMEDIA CONCEPTS:

Multimedia databases that allow users to store and query different types of multimedia
information.It includes

 images :- pictures,drawings
 videoclips :- movies,newsreels,home video
 audio clips :- song,phone msg,speeches
 documents :- book ,articles
Content based retrieval:
The multimedia source is being retrieval based on its containing certain objects or activities.
Identifying the contents of multimedia sources is difficult and time –consuming task.
There are two type of approaches:

 Automatic analysis
 Manual identification
Automatic analysis:-
To identify certain mathematical characteristics of their contents. This approach depends
on the type of multimedia source(image,text,video,audio).
Manual identification :
This approach can be applied to all the different multimedia sources, but it requires a
manual preprocessing phase where a person has to scan each multimedia source to
identify and catalog the object and activities it contains so that they can be used to index
these sources.
Characteristics of type of multimedia sources:-
Image:
An image is typically stored either in raw form as a set of pixels or cell values or

uncompressed form to save space.

The image shape descriptor describes the geometric shape of the raw image, which is a
rectangle of cells of certain width and height.

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 Image -> represented by an m by n grid of cells.
Types:-
 black and white image pixel ----------- > one bit
 grey scale or color image---------pixel is multiple bits

Mathematical transforms:-
Used to reduce the number of cells stored but still maintain the main image characteristics.

 DFT ---- > Discrete Fourier Transform

 DCT --  Discrete Cosine Transform
Techniques for searching the images from databases:

Two main techniques are used to search images.

1.Distance function approach
2.Transformation approach

1. Distance function approach:-

Distance function to compare the given image with the stored images and their segments.
Indexes can be created to group together stored images that are close in the distance metric so as
to limit the search space.
2. Transformation approach:-

Measures the image similarity by having a small number of transformations that can
transform one image cell to match the other image.Transform include rotations,transformations
and scaling.
video source:-
A video source is represented as a sequence of frames where each frame is a still image
.
video- video segments -> sequence of contiguous frame that include
same objects / activities.
Each video segment can be used to index the segments an indexing technique called
frame segment trees has been proposed for video indexing.
The index includes both objects [persons,houses,cars] and activities [driving,talking].

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 Text/documents source:
Text/document source is basically the full text of some article ,book or magazine
These sources are typically indexed by identifying the keywords that appear in the text
and their relative frequencies.
Techniques have been developed to reduce the number of keywords to those that are
relevant to the collection.

1. Singular value decomposition:-

Which is based on matrix transformation ,can be used for reducing the number of
keywords.
2. Telescoping vector trees:- or TV trees,can be used to group similar documents.

 Audiosources:-
Includes stored recorded messages ,such as speeches ,class presentations,even
surveillance recording of phase messages or conversions by law enforcement.
Discrete transforms can be used to identify the main chaacteristics of certain person’s
voice.
Audio characteristics include loudness,intensity,pitch and clarity.

9. Explain about Object Oriented Databases concepts? (May 2018)

OODB = Object Orientation + Database Capabilities

Object-Oriented Database Features:
-persistence
- support of transactions
- simple querying of bulk data
- concurrent access
- resilience
- security
Integration and Sharing
-Seamless integration of operating systems, databases, languages, spreadsheets, word
processors, AI expert system shells.
-Sharing of data, information, software components, products, computing environments.
-Referential sharing:
Multiple applications, products, or objects share common sub-objects.

Object-oriented databases allows referential sharing through the support of object identity
and inheritance.

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 The object-oriented paradigm is illustrated below:

Objects and Identity

The following figure shows object with state and behavior. The state is represented by the
values of the object's attributes, and the behavior is defined by the methods acting on the
state of the object. There is a unique object identifier OID to identify the object.

Complex Objects
Complex objects are built by applying constructors to simpler objects including: sets, lists
and tuples. An example is illustrated below:

Encapsulation
Encapsulation is derived from the notion of Abstract Data Type (ADT). It is motivated by
the need to make a clear distinction between the specification and the implementation of
an operation. It reinforces modularity and provides a form of logical data independence.

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Class
A class object is an object which acts as a template.
It specifies:
A structure that is the set of attributes of the instances
A set of operations
A set of methods which implement the operations
Instantiation means generating objects, Ex. 'new' operation in C++
Persistence of objects: Two approaches
An implicit characteristic of all objects
An orthogonal characteristic - insert the object into a persistent collection of objects

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Inheritance
A mechanism of reusability, the most powerful concept of OO programming

Association
Association is a link between entities in an application
In OODB, associations are represented by means of references between objects
a representation of a binary association
a representation of a ternary association
reverse reference

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 ADVANTAGES OF OODB
-An integrated repository of information that is shared by multiple users, multiple
products, multiple applications on multiple platforms.
- It also solves the following problems:
1. The semantic gap: The real world and the Conceptual model is very similar.

2. Impedance mismatch: Programming languages and database systems must be

interfaced to solve application problems. But the language style, data structures, of a
programming language (such as C) and the DBMS (such as Oracle) are different. The
OODB supports general purpose programming in the OODB framework.

3. New application requirements: Especially in OA, CAD, CAM, CASE, object-

orientation is the most natural and most convenient.

10. Explain in detail about XML Databases?

XML database

An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be stored in
XML format. These data can then be queried, exported and serialized into the desired
format. XML databases are usually associated with document-oriented databases.
Two major classes of XML database exist:[1]
1. XML-enabled: these may either map XML to traditional database structures
(such as a relational database[2]), accepting XML as input and rendering XML as
output, or more recently support native XML types within the traditional
database. This term implies that the database processes the XML itself (as
opposed to relying on middleware).
2. Native XML (NXD): the internal model of such databases depends on XML and
uses XML documents as the fundamental unit of storage, which are, however, not
necessarily stored in the form of text files.

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11.Explain about Distributed Databases and their characteristics, functions and
advantages and disadvantages. (May’2016)

Distributed Database: A logically interrelated collection of shared data and their

description, physically distributed over a computer network.

Distributed Processing: A centralized database, which may be accessed from different

computer systems, over an underlying network.

Replicated DBMS: A DDBMS that keeps and controls replicate data, such as Relations, in
multiple databases.

Distributed DBMS (DDBMS) consists of a collection of sites, each of which maintains a

local db system. So it is a network of computers interconnected by a data communication
system so that the physical db is distributed on at least two of the system's components:

Each site on the network is able to process local Transactions (i.e. - access data only in that
single site)
Each site may participate in the execution of Global Transactions (i.e. - access data in several
sites) which requires communication among the sites.
Note 1: The above can be thought of: Local Applications & Global Applications
Note 2: This scheme is transparent to users.

Homogeneous DDBMS: This is the case when the application programs are independent of
how the db is distributed; i.e. if the distribution of the physical data can be altered without
having to make alterations to the application programs. Here, all sites use the same DBMS
product - same schemata and same data dictionaries.

Heterogeneous DDBMS: This is the case when the application programs are dependent on
the physical location of the stored data; i.e. application programs must be altered if data is
moved from one site to another. Here, there are different kinds of DBMSs (i.e. Hierarchical,
Network, Relational, Object., etc.), with different underlying data models.

Characteristics of a DDBMS

A DDBMS developed by a single vendor may contain:

• Data independence
• Concurrency Control
• Replication facilities
• Recovery facilities
• Coordinated Data Dictionary
• Authorization System
• Shared Manipulation Language

Also:
• Transaction Manager (TM)

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• Transaction Coordinator (TC)

NOTE: a Distributed Data Processing System is a system where the application programs run
on distributed computers which are linked together by a data transmission network.

Advantages of DDBMSs
 More accurately reflects organizational structure
 Shareability and Local Autonomy (enforces global and local policies)
 Availability and Reliability (failed central db vs failed node)
 Performance (process/data migration and speed)
 Economics
 Modular growth
 Integration (with older systems)

Disadvantages of DDBMSs
 Complexity (Replication overhead, etc)
 Maintenance Costs (of sites)
 Security (Network Security)
 Integrity Control (More complex)
 Lack of Standards
 Lack of Experience and Misconceptions
 Database Design more complex

12.Write short notes on Mobile databases. (Nov’2014 & Nov’2015)

Mobile Databases
Recent advances in portable and wireless technology led to mobile computing, a new
dimension in data communication and processing.
Portable computing devices coupled with wireless communications allow clients to access
data from virtually anywhere and at any time.
There are a number of hardware and software problems that must be resolved before the
capabilities of mobile computing can be fully utilized.
Some of the software problems – which may involve data management, transaction
management, and database recovery – have their origins in distributed database systems.
In mobile computing, the problems are more difficult, mainly:
The limited and intermittent connectivity afforded by wireless communications.
The limited life of the power supply(battery).
The changing topology of the network.

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Mobile Computing Architecture
The general architecture of a mobile platform is illustrated in Fig.
It is distributed architecture where a number of computers generally referred to as Fixed
Hosts and Base Stations are interconnected through a high-speed wired network.
Fixed hosts are general purpose computers configured to manage mobile units.
Base stations function as gateways to the fixed network for the Mobile Units.
Wireless Communications –
The wireless medium have bandwidth significantly lower than those of a wired network.
The current generation of wireless technology has data rates range from the tens to hundreds
of kilobits per second (2G cellular telephony) to tens of megabits per second (wireless
Ethernet, popularly known as WiFi).
Modern (wired) Ethernet, by comparison, provides data rates on the order of hundreds of
megabits per second.

Architecture of a Mobile Computing

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The other characteristics distinguish wireless connectivity options:
interference, locality of access, range, support for packet switching, seamless roaming
throughout a geographical region.
Some wireless networks, such as WiFi and Bluetooth, use unlicensed areas of the frequency
spectrum, which may cause interference with other appliances, such as cordless telephones.
Modern wireless networks can transfer data in units called packets, that are used in wired
networks in order to conserve bandwidth.
Client/Network Relationships –
Mobile units can move freely in a geographic mobility domain, an area that is
circumscribed by wireless network coverage.
To manage entire mobility domain is divided into one or more smaller domains, called cells,
each of which is supported by at least one base station.
Mobile units be unrestricted throughout the cells of domain, while maintaining
information access contiguity.
The communication architecture described earlier is designed to give the mobile unit the
impression that it is attached to a fixed network, emulating a traditional client-server
architecture.
Wireless communications, however, make other architectures possible. One alternative is a
mobile ad-hoc network (MANET)

In a MANET, co-located mobile units do not need to communicate via a fixed network, but
instead, form their own using cost-effective technologies such as Bluetooth.
In a MANET, mobile units are responsible for routing their own data, effectively acting as
base stations as well as clients.
Moreover, they must be robust enough to handle changes in the network topology, such as
the arrival or departure of other mobile units.
MANET applications can be considered as peer-to-peer, meaning that a mobile unit is
simultaneously a client and a server.
Transaction processing and data consistency control become more difficult since there is no
central control in this architecture.
Resource discovery and data routing by mobile units make computing in a MANET even
more complicated.

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Sample MANET applications are multi-user games, shared whiteboard, distributed calendars,
and battle information sharing.
Characteristics of Mobile Environments
The characteristics of mobile computing include:
Communication latency
Intermittent connectivity
Limited battery life
Changing client location
The server may not be able to reach a client
A client may be unreachable because it is dozing – in an energy-conserving state in which
many subsystems are shut down – or because it is out of range of a base station.
In either case, neither client nor server can reach the other, and modifications must be made
to the architecture in order to compensate for this case.
Proxies for unreachable components are added to the architecture.
For a client (and symmetrically for a server), the proxy can cache updates intended for the
server.
Mobile computing poses challenges for servers as well as clients.
The latency involved in wireless communication makes scalability a problem.
Since latency due to wireless communications increases the time to service each client
request, the server can handle fewer clients.
One way servers relieve this problem is by broadcasting data whenever possible.
A server can simply broadcast data periodically.
Broadcast also reduces the load on the server, as clients do not have to maintain active
connections to it.
Client mobility also poses many data management challenges.
Servers must keep track of client locations in order to efficiently route messages to them.
Client data should be stored in the network location that minimizes the traffic necessary to
access it.
The act of moving between cells must be transparent to the client.

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 The server must be able to gracefully divert the shipment of data from one base to another,
without the client noticing.
Client mobility also allows new applications that are location-based.

13.Write short notes on Web databases. (Nov’2015)

WEB DATABASES:
Web database is the online database that can be only accessed using the web form-based
interface.
Web Basics
 The Web consists of computers on the Internet connected to each other in a specific way
 The Web has a client/server architecture
 Web browsers
 Also called browsers
 Programs used to connect client-side computers to the Internet
 Web servers
 Run special Web server software
 Listener
 Component included in Web server software
 Monitors for messages sent to it from client browsers

 Web page
 Usually a file with an .htm or .html extension that contains Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML) tags and text
 HTML
 Document layout language (not a programming language)
 Defines structure and appearance of Web pages
 Allows Web pages to embed hypertext links to other Web pages
Communication protocols
 Agreements between sender and receiver regarding how data are sent and
interpreted
 Internet is built on two network protocols:

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  Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
 Internet Protocol (IP)
 Interaction b/w Browser and Server is governed by the HTTP protocol
(Request/Response Tx)
 HTTP is stateless!
 (Will discuss in more detail when processing forms)
Web Address
 Packets
 Data that can be routed independently through Internet
 Domain name
 Represents an IP address
 A domain names server maintains tables with domain names matched to their IP
addresses
 Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
 Provide commercial Internet access
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol
 Communication protocol used on the Web
 Web address
 Also called Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
 Internet URLs
 Specify a Web server or domain name
 Specify communication protocol as first part of URL
 File URL
 HTML file stored on user’s hard drive

Dynamic Web Pages

 Static Web page
 Page content established at the time page is created
 Useful for displaying data that doesn’t change often, and for navigating between
HTML Web page files
 Dynamic Web page
 Also called an interactive Web page
 Page content varies according to user requests or inputs

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 Database-driven Web site Architecture

Database-driven Web site architecture for action query

Server-side and client-side Web database technologies

 In server-side processing, the Web server:

 Receives the dynamic Web page request
 Performs all of the processing necessary to create the dynamic Web page
 Sends the finished Web page to the client for display in the client’s browser

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  Client-side processing
 Some processing is done on the client workstation, either to form the request for
the dynamic Web page or to create or display the dynamic Web page
 Eg Javascript code to validate user input.
 Often needs to be “executed” by the Browser.
14.Explain about Threats and risks in database security.
(OR)
Present an Overview of Database Security. (May 2018)

Database security concerns the use of a broad range of information security controls to
protect databases (potentially including the data, the database applications or stored
functions, the database systems, the database servers and the associated network links)
against compromises of their confidentiality, integrity and availability. It involves various
types or categories of controls, such as technical, procedural/administrative and
physical. Database security is a specialist topic within the broader realms of computer
security, information security and risk management.
Types of Security
Database security is a broad area that addresses many issues, including the following:
■ Various legal and ethical issues regarding the right to access certain information
■ Policy issues at the governmental, institutional, or corporate level as to what kinds of
information should not be made publicly available—for example, credit ratings and personal
medical records.
■ System-related issues such as the system levels at which various security functions should
be enforced—for example, whether a security function should be handled at the physical
hardware level, the operating system level, or the DBMS level.
■ The need in some organizations to identify multiple security levels and to categorize the
data and users based on these classifications—for example, top secret, secret, confidential,
and unclassified.

Threats to databases
 Loss of integrity
 Loss of availability
 Loss of confidentiality
To protect databases against these types of threats four kinds of countermeasures can be
implemented:
 Access control: user accounts, passwords
 Inference control: when statistical databases are used
 Flow control: to avoid sensitive data reaching unauthorized users
 Encryption

Threats
 Excessive and Unused Privileges
 Privilege Abuse
 SQL Injection
 Malware
 Weak Audit Trail
 Storage Media Exposure
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 Exploitation of Vulnerabilities
 Misconfigured Databases
 Unmanaged Sensitive Data
 Denial of Service

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 Security risk to Database System:
Security risks to database systems include, for example:
 Unauthorized or unintended activity or misuse by authorized database users, database
administrators, or network/systems managers, or by unauthorized users or hackers
(e.g. inappropriate access to sensitive data, metadata or functions within databases, or
inappropriate changes to the database programs, structures or security
configurations);
 Malware infections causing incidents such as unauthorized access, leakage or
disclosure of personal or proprietary data, deletion of or damage to the data or
programs, interruption or denial of authorized access to the database, attacks on other
systems and the unanticipated failure of database services;
 Overloads, performance constraints and capacity issues resulting in the inability of
authorized users to use databases as intended;
 Physical damage to database servers caused by computer room fires or floods,
overheating, lightning, accidental liquid spills, static discharge, electronic
breakdowns/equipment failures and obsolescence;
 Design flaws and programming bugs in databases and the associated programs and
systems, creating various security vulnerabilities (e.g. unauthorized privilege
escalation), data loss/corruption, performance degradation etc.;
 Data corruption and/or loss caused by the entry of invalid data or commands,
mistakes in database or system administration processes, sabotage/criminal damage.

15.Explain in detail about Object Relational Features? (Dec 2016)

An object-relational database is a database management system similar to a relational database, but with an
object-oriented database model: objects, classes and inheritance are directly supported in database schemas
as well as within the query language. The popular RDBMS on the market today is Oracle. For the main
features of Object-relational database systems are listed below:

User Data Types & Complex Objects:

Complex data creation in most SQL ORDBMSs is based on preliminary schema definition via the user-
defined type (UDT). Object-Relational Database Managerment Systems (ORDBMSs) allow users to define
datatypes, functions and operators. As a result, the functionality of the ORDBMSs increases along with
their performance.

1. create or replace type point as object(

2. x number,
3. y number
4. )
5. create or replace type side as object(
6. a point,
7. b point,
8. member function get_length return integer
9. );

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Inheritance:
In all ORDBMS, inheritance of user defined types is supported to derive new sub-types or sub-classes
which would therefore inherit all attributes and methods from the parent type.

1. create or replace type eshape_tp under shape_tp(

2. OVERRIDING MEMBER FUNCTION get_area return integer
3. )
Method Encapsulation:
Methods are procedures or functions can be encapsulated within the defined object so that applications can
use to perform operations on the attributes of the object type. Methods are optional. They define the
behavior of objects of that type.

1. create or replace type side as object(

2. a point,
3. b point,
4. member function get_length return integer
5. );
6.
7. create or replace type body side as
8. member function get_length return integer is
9. begin
10. return sqrt( ((self.a.x-self.b.x)*(self.a.x-self.b.x)) + ((self.a.y-self.b.y)*(self.a.y-self.b.y)) );
11. end;
12. end;

16. Explain in detail about XQuery? (May 2017)

XQuery is a query-based language to retrieve data stored in the form of XML. XQuery is to XML what
SQL is to a database.
XQuery is a functional language that is used to retrieve information stored in XML format. XQuery can be
used on XML documents, relational databases containing data in XML formats, or XML Databases.
XQuery 3.0 is a W3C recommendation from April 8, 2014.
The definition of XQuery as given by its official documentation is as follows −
XQuery is a standardized language for combining documents, databases, Web pages and almost anything
else. It is very widely implemented. It is powerful and easy to learn. XQuery is replacing proprietary
middleware languages and Web Application development languages. XQuery is replacing complex Java or
C++ programs with a few lines of code. XQuery is simpler to work with and easier to maintain than many
other alternatives.

Characteristics:
 Functional Language − XQuery is a language to retrieve/querying XML based data.
 Analogous to SQL − XQuery is to XML what SQL is to databases.
 XPath based − XQuery uses XPath expressions to navigate through XML documents.

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  Universally accepted − XQuery is supported by all major databases.
 W3C Standard − XQuery is a W3C standard.
Benefits of XQuery:
 Using XQuery, both hierarchical and tabular data can be retrieved.
 XQuery can be used to query tree and graphical structures.
 XQuery can be directly used to query webpages.
 XQuery can be directly used to build webpages.
 XQuery can be used to transform xml documents.
 XQuery is ideal for XML-based databases and object-based databases. Object databases are much
more flexible and powerful than purely tabular databases.
XPATH:
 XQuery is XPath compliant. It uses XPath expressions to restrict the search results on XML
collections.
 XPath Examples:
 We will use the books.xml file and apply XQuery to it.

 books.xml
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <books>

 <book category="JAVA">
 <title lang="en">Learn Java in 24 Hours</title>
 <author>Robert</author>
 <year>2005</year>
 <price>30.00</price>
 </book>

 <book category="DOTNET">
 <title lang="en">Learn .Net in 24 hours</title>
 <author>Peter</author>
 <year>2011</year>
 <price>40.50</price>
 </book>

 <book category="XML">
 <title lang="en">Learn XQuery in 24 hours</title>
 <author>Robert</author>
 <author>Peter</author>
 <year>2013</year>
 <price>50.00</price>
 </book>
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
 <book category="XML">
 <title lang="en">Learn XPath in 24 hours</title>
 <author>Jay Ban</author>
 <year>2010</year>
 <price>16.50</price>
 </book>

 </books>
 We have given here three versions of an XQuery statement that fulfil the same objective of
displaying the book titles having a price value greater than 30.

 XQuery – Version 1
 (: read the entire xml document :)
 let $books := doc("books.xml")

 for $x in $books/books/book
 where $x/price > 30
 return $x/title

 Output
 <title lang="en">Learn .Net in 24 hours</title>
 <title lang="en">Learn XQuery in 24 hours</title>

 XQuery – Version 2
 (: read all books :)
 let $books := doc("books.xml")/books/book

 for $x in $books
 where $x/price > 30
 return $x/title

 Output
 <title lang="en">Learn .Net in 24 hours</title>
 <title lang="en">Learn XQuery in 24 hours</title>

 XQuery – Version 3
 (: read books with price > 30 :)
 let $books := doc("books.xml")/books/book[price > 30]

 for $x in $books
 return $x/title

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  Output
 <title lang="en">Learn .Net in 24 hours</title>
 <title lang="en">Learn XQuery in 24 hours</title>

17.Explain about Types of Privileges in database language.

A privilege is a right to execute a particular type of SQL statement or to access another

user's object. Some examples of privileges include the right to:
 Connect to the database
 Create a table
 Select rows from another user's table
 Execute another user's stored procedure
You grant privileges to users so these users can accomplish tasks required for their jobs.
You should grant a privilege only to a user who requires that privilege to accomplish the in
necessary work. Excessive granting of unnecessary privileges can compromise security.

A user can receive a privilege in two different ways:

 You can grant privileges to users explicitly. For example, you can explicitly grant to
user SCOTT the privilege to insert records into the employees table.
 You can also grant privileges to a role (a named group of privileges), and then grant
the role to one or more users. For example, you can grant the privileges to select,
insert, update, and delete records from the employees table to the role named clerk,
which in turn you can grant to users scott and brian.

Types:
 System Privileges
 Schema Object Privileges
 Table Privileges

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  View Privileges
 Procedure Privileges
 Type Privileges
In some cases it is desirable to grant a privilege to a user temporarily. For example,
 The owner of a relation may want to grant the SELECT privilege to a user for a specific
task and then revoke that privilege once the task is completed.
 Hence, a mechanism for revoking privileges is needed. In SQL, a REVOKE command is
included for the purpose of canceling privileges.
Suppose that the DBA creates four accounts
 A1, A2, A3, A4 and wants only A1 to be able to create base relations. Then the DBA
must issue the following GRANT command in SQL
 GRANT CREATETAB TO A1;
 In SQL the same effect can be accomplished by having the DBA issue a CREATE
SCHEMA command as follows:
 CREATE SCHAMA EXAMPLE AUTHORIZATION A1;
 User account A1 can create tables under the schema called EXAMPLE.
 Suppose that A1 creates the two base relations EMPLOYEE and
DEPARTMENT
 A1 is then owner of these two relations and hence all the relation privileges on
each of them.
 Suppose that A1 wants to grant A2 the privilege to insert and delete tuples in both
of these relations, but A1 does not want A2 to be able to propagate these privileges
to additional accounts:

 GRANT INSERT, DELETE ON EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT TO A2;

 Suppose that A1 decides to revoke the SELECT privilege on the EMPLOYEE
relation from A3; A1 can issue:
REVOKE SELECT ON EMPLOYEE FROM A3;

18.Explain in detail about Information Retrieval ? (Nov 2014, Nov 2019)

Information retrieval:
Information retrieval (IR) may be defined as a software program that deals with the organization, storage,
retrieval and evaluation of information from document repositories particularly textual information. The
system assists users in finding the information they require but it does not explicitly return the answers of
the questions. It informs the existence and location of documents that might consist of the required
information. The documents that satisfy user’s requirement are called relevant documents. A perfect IR
system will retrieve only relevant documents.
With the help of the following diagram, we can understand the process of information retrieval (IR) −
It is clear from the above diagram that a user who needs information will have to formulate a request in the
form of query in natural language. Then the IR system will respond by retrieving the relevant output, in
the form of documents, about the required information.
Classical Problem in Information Retrieval (IR) System
The main goal of IR research is to develop a model for retrieving information from the repositories of
documents. Here, we are going to discuss a classical problem, named ad-hoc retrieval problem, related to
the IR system.
In ad-hoc retrieval, the user must enter a query in natural language that describes the required information.
Then the IR system will return the required documents related to the desired information. For example,
suppose we are searching something on the Internet and it gives some exact pages that are relevant as per
our requirement but there can be some non-relevant pages too. This is due to the ad-hoc retrieval problem.
Aspects of Ad-hoc Retrieval
Followings are some aspects of ad-hoc retrieval that are addressed in IR research −
 How users with the help of relevance feedback can improve original formulation of a query?
 How to implement database merging, i.e., how results from different text databases can be merged
into one result set?
 How to handle partly corrupted data? Which models are appropriate for the same?
Information Retrieval (IR) Model
Mathematically, models are used in many scientific areas having objective to understand some
phenomenon in the real world. A model of information retrieval predicts and explains what a user will find
in relevance to the given query. IR model is basically a pattern that defines the above-mentioned aspects of
retrieval procedure and consists of the following −
 A model for documents.
 A model for queries.
 A matching function that compares queries to documents.
Mathematically, a retrieval model consists of −
D − Representation for documents.
R − Representation for queries.
F − The modeling framework for D, Q along with relationship between them.
R (q,di) − A similarity function which orders the documents with respect to the query. It is also called
ranking.
Types of Information Retrieval (IR) Model
An information model (IR) model can be classified into the following three models −

Classical IR Model
It is the simplest and easy to implement IR model. This model is based on mathematical knowledge that
was easily recognized and understood as well. Boolean, Vector and Probabilistic are the three classical IR
models.

Non-Classical IR Model
It is completely opposite to classical IR model. Such kind of IR models are based on principles other than
similarity, probability, Boolean operations. Information logic model, situation theory model and
interaction models are the examples of non-classical IR model.

Alternative IR Model
It is the enhancement of classical IR model making use of some specific techniques from some other
fields. Cluster model, fuzzy model and latent semantic indexing (LSI) models are the example of
alternative IR model.
Design features of Information retrieval (IR) systems
Let us now learn about the design features of IR systems −

Inverted Index
The primary data structure of most of the IR systems is in the form of inverted index. We can define an
inverted index as a data structure that list, for every word, all documents that contain it and frequency of
the occurrences in document. It makes it easy to search for ‘hits’ of a query word.

Stop Word Elimination

Stop words are those high frequency words that are deemed unlikely to be useful for searching. They have
less semantic weights. All such kind of words are in a list called stop list. For example, articles “a”, “an”,
“the” and prepositions like “in”, “of”, “for”, “at” etc. are the examples of stop words. The size of the
inverted index can be significantly reduced by stop list. As per Zipf’s law, a stop list covering a few dozen
words reduces the size of inverted index by almost half. On the other hand, sometimes the elimination of
stop word may cause elimination of the term that is useful for searching. For example, if we eliminate the
alphabet “A” from “Vitamin A” then it would have no significance.

Stemming
Stemming, the simplified form of morphological analysis, is the heuristic process of extracting the base
form of words by chopping off the ends of words. For example, the words laughing, laughs, laughed
would be stemmed to the root word laugh.
In our subsequent sections, we will discuss about some important and useful IR models.
The Boolean Model
It is the oldest information retrieval (IR) model. The model is based on set theory and the Boolean algebra,
where documents are sets of terms and queries are Boolean expressions on terms. The Boolean model can
be defined as −
 D − A set of words, i.e., the indexing terms present in a document. Here, each term is either present
(1) or absent (0).
 Q − A Boolean expression, where terms are the index terms and operators are logical products −
AND, logical sum − OR and logical difference − NOT
 F − Boolean algebra over sets of terms as well as over sets of documents
If we talk about the relevance feedback, then in Boolean IR model the Relevance prediction can be
defined as follows −
 R − A document is predicted as relevant to the query expression if and only if it satisfies the query
expression as −
(( ˅ )˄ ˄˜ ℎ )
We can explain this model by a query term as an unambiguous definition of a set of documents.
For example, the query term “economic” defines the set of documents that are indexed with the
term “economic”.
Now, what would be the result after combining terms with Boolean AND Operator? It will define a
document set that is smaller than or equal to the document sets of any of the single terms. For example, the
query with terms “social” and “economic” will produce the documents set of documents that are indexed
with both the terms. In other words, document set with the intersection of both the sets.
Now, what would be the result after combining terms with Boolean OR operator? It will define a
document set that is bigger than or equal to the document sets of any of the single terms. For example, the
query with terms “social” or “economic” will produce the documents set of documents that are indexed
with either the term “social” or “economic”. In other words, document set with the union of both the sets.
Advantages of the Boolean Mode
The advantages of the Boolean model are as follows −
 The simplest model, which is based on sets.
  Easy to understand and implement.
 It only retrieves exact matches
 It gives the user, a sense of control over the system.
Disadvantages of the Boolean Model
The disadvantages of the Boolean model are as follows −
 The model’s similarity function is Boolean. Hence, there would be no partial matches. This can be
annoying for the users.
 In this model, the Boolean operator usage has much more influence than a critical word.
 The query language is expressive, but it is complicated too.
 No ranking for retrieved documents.
Vector Space Model
Due to the above disadvantages of the Boolean model, Gerard Salton and his colleagues suggested a
model, which is based on Luhn’s similarity criterion. The similarity criterion formulated by Luhn states,
“the more two representations agreed in given elements and their distribution, the higher would be the
probability of their representing similar information.”
Consider the following important points to understand more about the Vector Space Model −
 The index representations (documents) and the queries are considered as vectors embedded in a
high dimensional Euclidean space.
 The similarity measure of a document vector to a query vector is usually the cosine of the angle
between them.
Cosine Similarity Measure Formula
Cosine is a normalized dot product, which can be calculated with the help of the following formula –

Vector Space Representation with Query and Document

The query and documents are represented by a two-dimensional vector space. The terms
are car and insurance. There is one query and three documents in the vector space.
The top ranked document in response to the terms car and insurance will be the document d2 because the
angle between q and d2 is the smallest. The reason behind this is that both the concepts car and insurance
are salient in d2 and hence have the high weights. On the other side, d1 and d3 also mention both the terms
but in each case, one of them is not a centrally important term in the document.

Term Weighting
Term weighting means the weights on the terms in vector space. Higher the weight of the term, greater
would be the impact of the term on cosine. More weights should be assigned to the more important terms
in the model. Now the question that arises here is how can we model this.
One way to do this is to count the words in a document as its term weight. However, do you think it would
be effective method?
Another method, which is more effective, is to use term frequency (tfij), document frequency
(dfi) and collection frequency (cfi).

Term Frequency (tfij)

It may be defined as the number of occurrences of wi in dj. The information that is captured by term
frequency is how salient a word is within the given document or in other words we can say that the higher
the term frequency the more that word is a good description of the content of that document.

Document Frequency (dfi)

It may be defined as the total number of documents in the collection in which w i occurs. It is an indicator
of informativeness. Semantically focused words will occur several times in the document unlike the
semantically unfocused words.

Collection Frequency (cfi)

It may be defined as the total number of occurrences of wi in the collection.
Mathematically,

Forms of Document Frequency Weighting

Let us now learn about the different forms of document frequency weighting. The forms are described
below −

Term Frequency Factor

This is also classified as the term frequency factor, which means that if a term t appears often in a
document then a query containing t should retrieve that document. We can combine word’s term
frequency (tfij) and document frequency (dfi) into a single weight as follows −

Here N is the total number of documents.

Inverse Document Frequency (idf)

This is another form of document frequency weighting and often called idf weighting or inverse document
frequency weighting. The important point of idf weighting is that the term’s scarcity across the collection
is a measure of its importance and importance is inversely proportional to frequency of occurrence.
Mathematically,

Here,
N = documents in the collection
nt = documents containing term t
User Query Improvement
The primary goal of any information retrieval system must be accuracy − to produce relevant documents
as per the user’s requirement. However, the question that arises here is how can we improve the output by
improving user’s query formation style. Certainly, the output of any IR system is dependent on the user’s
query and a well-formatted query will produce more accurate results. The user can improve his/her query
with the help of relevance feedback, an important aspect of any IR model.
Relevance Feedback
Relevance feedback takes the output that is initially returned from the given query. This initial output can
be used to gather user information and to know whether that output is relevant to perform a new query or
not. The feedbacks can be classified as follows −

Explicit Feedback
It may be defined as the feedback that is obtained from the assessors of relevance. These assessors will
also indicate the relevance of a document retrieved from the query. In order to improve query retrieval
performance, the relevance feedback information needs to be interpolated with the original query.
Assessors or other users of the system may indicate the relevance explicitly by using the following
relevance systems −
 Binary relevance system − This relevance feedback system indicates that a document is either
relevant (1) or irrelevant (0) for a given query.
 Graded relevance system − The graded relevance feedback system indicates the relevance of a
document, for a given query, on the basis of grading by using numbers, letters or descriptions. The
description can be like “not relevant”, “somewhat relevant”, “very relevant” or “relevant”.

Implicit Feedback
It is the feedback that is inferred from user behavior. The behavior includes the duration of time user spent
viewing a document, which document is selected for viewing and which is not, page browsing and
scrolling actions, etc. One of the best examples of implicit feedback is dwell time, which is a measure of
how much time a user spends viewing the page linked to in a search result.

Pseudo Feedback
It is also called Blind feedback. It provides a method for automatic local analysis. The manual part of
relevance feedback is automated with the help of Pseudo relevance feedback so that the user gets
improved retrieval performance without an extended interaction. The main advantage of this feedback
system is that it does not require assessors like in explicit relevance feedback system.
Consider the following steps to implement this feedback −
 Step 1 − First, the result returned by initial query must be taken as relevant result. The range of
relevant result must be in top 10-50 results.
 Step 2 − Now, select the top 20-30 terms from the documents using for instance term frequency(tf)-
inverse document frequency(idf) weight.
 Step 3 − Add these terms to the query and match the returned documents. Then return the most
relevant documents.

19.Explain types of database security and database security issues.(May 2016)

Database security issues
 Types of Security
 Legal and ethical issues
 Policy issues
  System-related issues
 The need to identify multiple security levels
 Threats to databases
 Loss of integrity
 Loss of availability
 Loss of confidentiality
 To protect databases against these types of threats four kinds of countermeasures can
be implemented:

Access control
 The security mechanism of a DBMS must include provisions for
restricting access to the database as a whole
 This function is called access control and is handled by creating user
accounts and passwords to control login process by the DBMS.
Inference control
 The security problem associated with databases is that of controlling
the access to a statistical database, which is used to provide
statistical information or summaries of values based on various
criteria.
 The countermeasures to statistical database security problem is
called inference control measures.

Flow control
 Another security is that of flow control, which prevents information from
flowing in such a way that it reaches unauthorized users.

Encryption
 A final security issue is data encryption, which is used to protect sensitive data (such
as credit card numbers) that is being transmitted via some type communication
network.
 The data is encoded using some encoding algorithm.

Types of database security

 A DBMS typically includes a database security and authorization subsystem that is
responsible for ensuring the security portions of a database against unauthorized
access.
Types of database security mechanisms:
 Discretionary Access Control
 Mandatory Access Control
 Role based Access Control.
Discretionary Access Control
The typical method of enforcing discretionary access control in a database system is based
on the granting and revoking privileges
Types of Discretionary Privileges
The account level:
□At this level, the DBA specifies the particular privileges that each account holds
independently of the relations in the database.
□The privileges at the account level apply to the capabilities provided to the account itself
and can include
□The CREATE SCHEMA or CREATE TABLE privilege, to create a schema or base
relation;
□The CREATE VIEW privilege;
□The ALTER privilege, to apply schema changes such adding or removing attributes from
relations;
□The DROP privilege, to delete relations or views;
□The MODIFY privilege, to insert, delete, or update tuples;
□The SELECT privilege, to retrieve information from the database by using a SELECT
query.
□The relation level (or table level):
□At this level, the DBA can control the privilege to access each individual relation or view
in the database.
□This includes base relations and virtual (view) relations.
□To control the granting and revoking of relation privileges, each relation R in a database is
assigned and owner account, which is typically the account that was used when the relation
was
created in the first place.
□The owner of a relation is given all privileges on that relation.
□Suppose that the DBA creates four accounts
□A1, A2, A3, A4
□And wants only A1 to be able to create base relations. Then the DBA must issue the
following
GRANT command in SQL
GRANT CREATETAB TO A1;
□In SQL2 the same effect can be accomplished by having the DBA issue a CREATE
SCHEMA
command as follows:
CREATE SCHAMA EXAMPLE AUTHORIZATION A1;
□Suppose that A1 wants to allow A3 to retrieve information from either of the two tables
and also
to be able to propagate the SELECT privilege to other accounts.
□A1 can issue the command:
GRANT SELECT ON EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT
TO A3 WITH GRANT OPTION;
Mandatory Access Control and Role-Based Access Control for Multilevel Security
□The discretionary access control techniques of granting and revoking privileges on
relations have
traditionally been the main security mechanism for relational database systems.
□This is an all-or-nothing method:
□A user either has or does not have a certain privilege.
 □In many applications, and additional security policy is needed that classifies data and users
based
on security classes.
□This approach as mandatory access control would typically be combined with the
discretionary access control mechanisms.
□Typical security classes are top secret (TS), secret (S), confidential (C), and unclassified
(U),
where TS is the highest level and U the lowest: TS ≥ S ≥ C ≥ U
□The commonly used model for multilevel security, known as the Bell-LaPadula model,
classifies
each subject (user, account, program) and object (relation, tuple, column, view, operation)
into
one of the security classifications, T, S, C, or U:
□Clearance (classification) of a subject S as class(S) and to the classification of an object
O as class (O).
□Two restrictions are enforced on data access based on the subject/object classifications:
□Simple security property: A subject S is not allowed read access to an object O unless
class(S) ≥ class (O).
□A subject S is not allowed to write an object O unless class(S) ≤ class(O). This known as
the star property (or * property).
Role-based access control
□Its basic notion is that permissions are associated with roles, and users are assigned to
appropriate
roles.
□Roles can be created using the CREATE ROLE and DESTROY ROLE commands.
□The GRANT and REVOKE commands discussed under DAC can then be used to assign
and revoke privileges from roles.

20.Discuss about the Access control mechanism and Cryptography methods to secure the
Database. (Nov’2014 & May 2015)

Access control mechanism

It’s all about user’s access to the database.
Types
Discretionary Access Control
Mandatory Access Control
Role based Access Control.
Discretionary Access Control
The typical method of enforcing discretionary access control in a database system is based
on the granting and revoking privileges

Types of Discretionary Privileges

The account level:

□At this level, the DBA specifies the particular privileges that each account holds
independently of the relations in the database.
□The privileges at the account level apply to the capabilities provided to the account itself
and can include
□The CREATE SCHEMA or CREATE TABLE privilege, to create a schema or base
relation;
□The CREATE VIEW privilege;
□The ALTER privilege, to apply schema changes such adding or removing attributes from
relations;
□The DROP privilege, to delete relations or views;
□The MODIFY privilege, to insert, delete, or update tuples;
□The SELECT privilege, to retrieve information from the database by using a SELECT
query.

The relation level (or table level):

□At this level, the DBA can control the privilege to access each individual relation or view
in the database.
□This includes base relations and virtual (view) relations.
□To control the granting and revoking of relation privileges, each relation R in a database is
assigned and owner account, which is typically the account that was used when the relation
was created in the first place.
□The owner of a relation is given all privileges on that relation.
□Suppose that the DBA creates four accounts A1, A2, A3, A4 and wants only A1 to be able
to create base relations. Then the DBA must issue the following

GRANT command in SQL

GRANT CREATETAB TO A1;
□In SQL2 the same effect can be accomplished by having the DBA issue a CREATE
SCHEMA command as follows:

CREATE SCHAMA EXAMPLE AUTHORIZATION A1;

□Suppose that A1 wants to allow A3 to retrieve information from either of the two tables
and also to be able to propagate the SELECT privilege to other accounts.
□A1 can issue the command:

GRANT SELECT ON EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT

TO A3 WITH GRANT OPTION;

Mandatory Access Control and Role-Based Access Control for Multilevel Security
□The discretionary access control techniques of granting and revoking privileges on
relations have traditionally been the main security mechanism for relational database
systems.
□This is an all-or-nothing method:
□A user either has or does not have a certain privilege.
□In many applications, and additional security policy is needed that classifies data and users
based on security classes.
□This approach as mandatory access control would typically be combined with the
discretionary access control mechanisms.
□Typical security classes are top secret (TS), secret (S), confidential (C), and unclassified
(U), where TS is the highest level and U the lowest: TS ≥ S ≥ C ≥ U
□The commonly used model for multilevel security, known as the Bell-LaPadula model,
classifies each subject (user, account, program) and object (relation, tuple, column, view,
operation) into one of the security classifications, T, S, C, or U:
□Clearance (classification) of a subject S as class(S) and to the classification of an object
O as class (O).
□Two restrictions are enforced on data access based on the subject/object classifications:
□Simple security property: A subject S is not allowed read access to an object O unless
class(S) ≥ class (O).
□A subject S is not allowed to write an object O unless class(S) ≤ class(O). This known as
the star property (or * property).

Role-based access control

□Its basic notion is that permissions are associated with roles, and users are assigned to
appropriate roles.
□Roles can be created using the CREATE ROLE and DESTROY ROLE commands.
□The GRANT and REVOKE commands discussed under DAC can then be used to assign
and revoke privileges from roles.

Cryptography method to secure the database

□Encryption is a means of maintaining secure data in an insecure environment.
□Encryption consists of applying an encryption algorithm to data using some pre specified
encryption key.
□The resulting data has to be decrypted using a decryption key to recover the original data.

Data and Advanced Encryption Standards (DES)

□DES can provide end-to-end encryption on the channel between the sender A and receiver
B.
□DES algorithm is a careful and complex combination of two of the fundamental building
blocksof encryption:
□Substitution and permutation (transposition).
□The DES algorithm derives its strength from repeated application of these two techniques
for a total of 16 cycles.
□Plaintext (the original form of the message) is encrypted as blocks of 64 bits.

Public Key Encryption

□Public key algorithms are based on mathematical functions rather than operations on bit
patterns.
□They also involve the use of two separate keys
□In contrast to conventional encryption, which uses only one key.
□The use of two keys can have profound consequences in the areas of confidentiality, key
distribution, and authentication.
□The two keys used for public key encryption are referred to as the public key and the
private key.
 The essential steps are as follows:
□Each user generates a pair of keys to be used for the encryption and decryption of
messages.
□Each user places one of the two keys in a public register or other accessible file. This is
the public key. The companion key is kept private (private key).
□If a sender wishes to send a private message to a receiver, the sender encrypts the
message using the receiver’s public key.
□When the receiver receives the message, he or she decrypts it using the receiver’s private
key.
□No other recipient can decrypt the message because only the receiver knows his or her
private key.

Digital Signatures:
□A digital signature is an example of using encryption techniques to provide authentication
services in e-commerce applications.
□A digital signature is a means of associating a mark unique to an individual with a body of
text.
□The mark should be unforgettable, meaning that others should be able to check that the
signature does come from the originator.
□A digital signature consists of a string of symbols.
□Signature must be different for each use.
□This can be achieved by making each digital signature a function of the message that it is
signing, together with a time stamp.
□Public key techniques are the means creating digital signatures

21.Suppose an Object Oriented database had an object A, which references object B, which in
turn references object C. Assume all objects are on disk initially? Suppose a program first
dereferences A, then dereferences B by following the reference from A, and then finally
dereferences C. Show the objects that are represented in memory after each dereference,
along with their state. (Nov’2015)

• For tuples of relations = "row types."

• For columns of relations = "types."
– But row types can also be used as column types.
References :
• Row types can have references.
• If T is a row type, then REF(T) is the type of a reference to a T object.

CREATE ROW TYPE A (

name CHAR(20) UNIQUE,
addr CHAR(20) );

CREATE ROW TYPE B(

name CHAR(20) UNIQUE,
manf CHAR(20) );
 CREATE ROW TYPE C (
a REF(A),
b REF(B),
price FLOAT);

• Row-type declarations do not create tables.

– They are used in place of element lists in CREATE TABLE statements.
• Example
– CREATE TABLE a1 OF TYPE A
– CREATE TABLE b1 OF TYPE B
– CREATE TABLE c1 OF TYPE B

Dereferencing:
• A -> B = the B attribute of the object referred to by reference A.
• Example
– Find the B served by Joe.
SELECT b -> name
FROM c1
WHERE c -> name = 'Joe';

22.Describe the GRANT functions and explain how it relates to security. What types of
privileges may be granted? How rights could be revoked? (Nov/Dec 2015)

Granting and revoking privileges

 The account level:
 At this level, the DBA specifies the particular privileges that each account
holds independently of the relations in the database.
 The relation level (or table level):
  At this level, the DBA can control the privilege to access each individual
relation or view in the database.
Propagation of Privileges using the GRANT OPTION
 Whenever the owner A of a relation R grants a privilege on R to another account B,
privilege can be given to B with or without the GRANT OPTION.
 If the GRANT OPTION is given, this means that B can also grant that privilege on R
to other accounts.
 Suppose that B is given the GRANT OPTION by A and that B then grants the
privilege on R to a third account C, also with GRANT OPTION. In this way,
privileges on R can propagate to other accounts without the knowledge of the
owner of R.
 If the owner account A now revokes the privilege granted to B, all the
privileges that B propagated based on that privilege should automatically be
revoked by the system.

 Suppose that the DBA creates four accounts

 A1, A2, A3, A4
 and wants only A1 to be able to create base relations. Then the DBA must issue the
following GRANT command in SQL
GRANT CREATETAB TO A1;
 In SQL2 the same effect can be accomplished by having the DBA issue a CREATE
SCHEMA command as follows:
CREATE SCHAMA EXAMPLE AUTHORIZATION A1;
 User account A1 can create tables under the schema called EXAMPLE.
 Suppose that A1 creates the two base relations EMPLOYEE and DEPARTMENT
 A1 is then owner of these two relations and hence all the relation privileges
on each of them.
 Suppose that A1 wants to grant A2 the privilege to insert and delete tuples in both of
these relations, but A1 does not want A2 to be able to propagate these privileges to
additional accounts:
GRANT INSERT, DELETE ON EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT TO A2;
 Suppose that A1 wants to allow A3 to retrieve information from either of the two
tables and also to be able to propagate the SELECT privilege to other accounts.
 A1 can issue the command:
GRANT SELECT ON EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT TO A3 WITH
GRANT OPTION;
 Suppose that A1 decides to revoke the SELECT privilege on the EMPLOYEE
relation from A3; A1 can issue.
23.Illustrate of usage of OQL, the DMG’s query language? (Nov 2019)

Object Query Language:

Object Query Language (OQL) is a query language standard for object-oriented databases modeled
after SQL. OQL was developed by the Object Data Management Group (ODMG). Because of its overall
complexity nobody has ever fully implemented the complete OQL. OQL has influenced the design of
some of the newer query languages like JDOQL and EJB QL, but they can't be considered as different
flavors of OQL.

The following rules apply to OQL statements:

 All complete statements must be terminated by a semi-colon.

 A list of entries in OQL is usually separated by commas but not terminated by a comma(,).
 Strings of text are enclosed by matching quotation marks.

Simple query:
The following example illustrates how one might retrieve the database:

SELECT pc.cpuspeed
FROM PCs pc
WHERE pc.ram > 64;

Query with grouping and aggregation:

The following example illustrates how one might retrieve the average amount:

SELECT manufacturer, AVG(SELECT part.pc.ram FROM partition part)

FROM PCs pc
GROUP BY manufacturer: pc.manufacturer;

Note the use of the keyword partition , as opposed to aggregation in traditional SQL

Data Mining Query Language (DMQL):

The Data Mining Query Language (DMQL) was proposed by Han, Fu, Wang, et al. for the DBMiner data
mining system. The Data Mining Query Language is actually based on the Structured Query Language
(SQL). Data Mining Query Languages can be designed to support ad hoc and interactive data mining. This
DMQL provides commands for specifying primitives. The DMQL can work with databases and data
warehouses as well. DMQL can be used to define data mining tasks. Particularly we examine how to
define data warehouses and data marts in DMQL.
Syntax for Task-Relevant Data Specification
Here is the syntax of DMQL for specifying task-relevant data −
use database database_name

or

use data warehouse data_warehouse_name

in relevance to att_or_dim_list
from relation(s)/cube(s) [where condition]
order by order_list
group by grouping_list

Syntax for Specifying the Kind of Knowledge

Here we will discuss the syntax for Characterization, Discrimination, Association, Classification, and
Prediction.

Characterization
The syntax for characterization is −
mine characteristics [as pattern_name]
analyze {measure(s) }
The analyze clause, specifies aggregate measures, such as count, sum, or count%.
For example −
Description describing customer purchasing habits.
mine characteristics as customerPurchasing
analyze count%

Discrimination
The syntax for Discrimination is −
mine comparison [as {pattern_name]}
For {target_class } where {t arget_condition }
{versus {contrast_class_i }
where {contrast_condition_i}}
analyze {measure(s) }
For example, a user may define big spenders as customers who purchase items that cost $100 or more on
an average; and budget spenders as customers who purchase items at less than $100 on an average. The
mining of discriminant descriptions for customers from each of these categories can be specified in the
DMQL as −
mine comparison as purchaseGroups
for bigSpenders where avg(I.price) ≥$100
versus budgetSpenders where avg(I.price)< $100
analyze count
Association
The syntax for Association is−
mine associations [ as {pattern_name} ]
{matching {metapattern} }
For Example −
mine associations as buyingHabits
matching P(X:customer,W) ^ Q(X,Y) ≥ buys(X,Z)
where X is key of customer relation; P and Q are predicate variables; and W, Y, and Z are object variables.

Classification
The syntax for Classification is −
mine classification [as pattern_name]
analyze classifying_attribute_or_dimension
For example, to mine patterns, classifying customer credit rating where the classes are determined by the
attribute credit_rating, and mine classification is determined as classifyCustomerCreditRating.
analyze credit_rating

Prediction
The syntax for prediction is −
mine prediction [as pattern_name]
analyze prediction_attribute_or_dimension
{set {attribute_or_dimension_i= value_i}}

Syntax for Concept Hierarchy Specification

To specify concept hierarchies, use the following syntax −
use hierarchy <hierarchy> for <attribute_or_dimension>
We use different syntaxes to define different types of hierarchies such as−
-schema hierarchies
define hierarchy time_hierarchy on date as [date,month quarter,year]

-set-grouping hierarchies
define hierarchy age_hierarchy for age on customer as
level1: {young, middle_aged, senior} < level0: all
level2: {20, ..., 39} < level1: young
level3: {40, ..., 59} < level1: middle_aged
level4: {60, ..., 89} < level1: senior

-operation-derived hierarchies
define hierarchy age_hierarchy for age on customer as
{age_category(1), ..., age_category(5)}
:= cluster(default, age, 5) < all(age)

-rule-based hierarchies
define hierarchy profit_margin_hierarchy on item as
level_1: low_profit_margin < level_0: all

if (price - cost)< $50

level_1: medium-profit_margin < level_0: all

if ((price - cost) > $50) and ((price - cost) ≤ $250))

level_1: high_profit_margin < level_0: all
Syntax for Interestingness Measures Specification
Interestingness measures and thresholds can be specified by the user with the statement −
with <interest_measure_name> threshold = threshold_value
For Example −
with support threshold = 0.05
with confidence threshold = 0.7
Syntax for Pattern Presentation and Visualization Specification
We have a syntax, which allows users to specify the display of discovered patterns in one or more forms.
display as <result_form>
For Example −
display as table

Full Specification of DMQL

As a market manager of a company, you would like to characterize the buying habits of customers who
can purchase items priced at no less than $100; with respect to the customer's age, type of item purchased,
and the place where the item was purchased. You would like to know the percentage of customers having
that characteristic. In particular, you are only interested in purchases made in Canada, and paid with an
American Express credit card. You would like to view the resulting descriptions in the form of a table.
use database AllElectronics_db
use hierarchy location_hierarchy for B.address
mine characteristics as customerPurchasing
analyze count%
in relevance to C.age,I.type,I.place_made
from customer C, item I, purchase P, items_sold S, branch B
where I.item_ID = S.item_ID and P.cust_ID = C.cust_ID and
P.method_paid = "AmEx" and B.address = "Canada" and I.price ≥ 100
with noise threshold = 5%
display as table

Data Mining Languages Standardization

Standardizing the Data Mining Languages will serve the following purposes −
 Helps systematic development of data mining solutions.
 Improves interoperability among multiple data mining systems and functions.
 Promotes education and rapid learning.
 Promotes the use of data mining systems in industry and society.