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Code No: 154AM


JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
JN
B. Tech II Year II Semester Examinations, August/September - 2021
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
(Common to CSE, IT, ITE)
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 75
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Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Discuss about levels of abstraction in a DBMS.
b) What is a data model? What are the different data models? Explain. [7+8]
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2.a) Define ER model and explain the following kinds of constraints that can be specified in
the ER diagram, and give an example of each: i) key constraint ii) participation
constraint.
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b) Discuss the functionality of query evaluation engine. [8+7]

3.a) Discuss in detail about the properties of relation algebra.


b) Compare tuple relational calculus and domain relational calculus. [7+8]
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4. Consider the following relations
Sailors (sid, sname, rating, age)
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Boats (bid, bname, color)
Reserves (sid, bid, day)
Write the statements in Relational Algebra, Relational Calculus, Domain Relational
Calculus and SQL for the following questions.
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a) Find the names of sailors who have reserved a Red boat.
b) Find the names of sailors who have reserved at least one boat.
c) Find the names of sailors who have reserved a Red and a Green boat.
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d) Find the names of sailors who have reserved a Red or a White boat.
e) Find the names of sailors who have reserved all boats. [15]

5.a) What are the steps to be followed to convert a relation in 3NF to BCNF?
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b) Discuss the importance of entity integrity and referential integrity constraints. [8+7]

6.a) When is the decomposition of a relation schema R into two relation schemas X and Y
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said to be lossless-join decomposition? Why is this property so important? Give a
necessary and sufficient condition to test whether a decomposition is lossless-join.
b) Discuss fourth normal form with illustration. [8+7]
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7.a) Discuss in detail about timestamp based concurrency control techniques.
b) Write about Log based recovery. [8+7]

8.a) State and explain various file organization methods. Give suitable examples to each of
them.
b) What are the Pros and Cons of ISAM? [8+7]

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