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Department of IT & Computer Science

Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences


and Technology, Haripur
Spring 2024
Course Title Database Systems Course Code COMP-231
Course Instructor Ms. Zubaria Noureen Program BS(AI)
Class BS(AI)-F22 Semester 4th
Submission Date May 30, 2024 Maximum 25
Assignment 04

Instructions:
1. Only submissions on MS Teams are acceptable in PDF Format.
2. Five Marks will be deducted from late submission (1 Mark per day, max 5). More than
7 days late submission will not be considered, and submission will be locked on MS
Teams.
3. For full marks, provide commented stepwise solutions to all the questions.
4. Rename the file as: Intake, Registration ID and Full Name (otherwise 3 Marks will be
deducted) e.g., SE22F_Inshira_Hassan_B22F0064SE112.pdf

Q1: [5 Marks]

Suppose that you are a data administrator in a large European pharmaceutical manufacturer
that has significant sales and marketing efforts in Europe, Japan, and the United States. What
data management issues would you have to be most concerned with?
Q2: [5 Marks]
Suppose that you have just joined a large financial services company as the head of IT and
are asked to create a formal code of ethics for IT. What steps would you take to research
this task, and what resources would you consider?

Q3: [5 Marks]
Would it be correct to say that the work of maintaining database consistency and availability
requires more than just DBMS functionalities? Discuss the role of the DBA in database backup
and recovery.

Q4: [5 Marks]

Normalization is an important concept for database professionals. Whether you are a


designer, database analyst or administrator, it is useful for designing, situation verification as
well as performance tuning. What are the basic issues to be aware of before carrying out the
normalization process?

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Q5: [5 Marks]
Examine the Patient Medication Form for the Wellmeadows Hospital case study shown in
Figure 1.

(a) Identify the functional dependencies represented by the attributes shown in the form in
Figure 1. State any assumptions that you make about the data and the attributes shown in
this form.
(b) Describe and illustrate the process of normalizing the attributes shown in Figure 1 to
produce a set of well-designed 3NF relations.
(c) Identify the primary, alternate, and foreign keys in your 3NF relations.

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