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DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ( MCS-023)

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 Commit and Rollback.
 What are order by clause and aggregate functions in SQL ?
 Write short notes on the following
(a) Concurrent Transactions
(b) Hashed File Organization
(c) DML Commands used in DBMS (any four)
(d) Functional Dependency
(e)Lossless decomposition
(f) Dependency preserving decomposition
(g)2-phase locking protocol
(h) Deadlock prevention protocol
(i) Data fragmentation in DDBMS
(j) Cartesian product and division operations in relational algebra
(k) Inverted file organization
(l) Client-server databases
(m)Time-stamping protocol

(n) Checkpoints
(O)Web Databases
(P) Distributed Databases
(Q) Shadow Paging

Differentiate between the following (give example


for each) : 4 5=20
(a) Client-Server vs. Distributed Database
(b) Centralized DBMS vs. Distributed DBMS
(c) DBMS vs. File Base Systems
(d) 2-Phase Locking vs. 2-Phase Commit
(e)Centralized and Distributed DBMS feb-2021
(f) Deadlock avoidance and Deadlock prevention protocols feb-2021
(g) 2 Phase locking and 2 Phase commit feb-2021
(h) 3NF and BCNF feb-2021
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 In terms of DBMS, what is a transaction ?Discuss ACID properties of


transaction.
 What is Log-Based Recovery System ? Explain the type of
information kept in a log about transaction. Which type of
transactions are selected for REDO and UNDO for database recovery
? Explain with an example.
 Compare strong and weak entities in the context of ER diagram with
the help of an example.
 What do you understand by the term functional dependency ?
Explain the following functional dependencies : 10
(i) Full functional dependency
(ii) Partial functional dependency
(iii) Transitive functional dependency
(iv) Trivial functional dependency

What is Relational Algebra ? What is the utility of relational algebra ? Is


SQL related to relational algebra ? Comment on it. Explain the following
operations in the relational algebra with the help of an example for
each : (i) Select (ii) Project (iii) Join

Book - 1
 Explain the role of Database Management and state its advantages and
disadvantage ?
 The file-based system with a database approach ?
 Discuss the Logical DBMS Architecture (ANSI-SPARC 3 levels)
 What do understand the term from Data Dictionary ?
 What are the Integrity Constraints ? Explain the various
 Integrity Constraints with the help of examples ?
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 What is weak entity and strong entity? Explain through an example ?


 Define serializable Schedule ?
 What do you understand the query Optimization? Discuss the role of
Relation Algebra in Query Optimization ?
 Draw an Entity relationship diagram(ERD) ?
 Why do we use Normalization in data database. Give one example of
each approach ?
 Which of following functional dependencies holds for the Relation
(R) ?
 Compare primary,secondary and clustering indexes ?
 Discuss the Importance of File Organisation ?
 Prove the statement “Any relation which is In BCNF is in 3NF
 but the converse is no true ?
 What is Index of Tree Structure and What is a B* tree? Why is a
 B* tree better structure than a b-tree for implementation of an index
sequential file ?
 With the help of suitable example of inverted file organization ?
Book -2
 Consider the relation database . write a query in SQL ?
 Define Data Manipulation Language , and List an explain the DML
command ?
 What is understand term by the Transactions ?
 Explain problem The Concurrent transactions with the help of
an examples ?
 Write the short notes of locking protocol?
 Discuss the wait die and wound-wait protocols for

 Deadlock protocol and its Preventions?


 Explain the backward Recovery and forward recovery
 What is a key advantage of check points of recovery mechanism?
 What is the Recovery Techniques?
 Compare and contrast the Distributed DBMS ?
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 Explain briefly about Data replication Give its advantages and


Disadvantages?
 With the help of example, explain Client-Server Databases?
 Describe the following client-server architecture with the help of a
diagram : 2 5=10
(i) 2-tier
(ii) 3-tier

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