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Database Questions and Answers

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Here are the answers to the questions from both screenshots:

Group A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

1. During the _____ phase, the local variables that hold the write operations are copied to the
database.
Answer: Commit
2. The dependency rules specified by the database designer are known as _____.
Answer: Constraints

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3. _____ is a predicate that we expect the database to always satisfy.
Answer: Integrity constraint
4. What is the format of entering the date into a database while inserting data into it?
Answer: YYYY-MM-DD

5. To select a tuple from a relational database table, the symbol used in relational algebra is
_____.
Answer: σ (Sigma)
6. Which of the systems use RDBMS?
Answer: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
7. What is the cardinality of a table of 50 rows and 5 columns?
Answer: 50

8. Data about data is known as _____.


Answer: Metadata
9. DML is provided for what purpose?
Answer: Data manipulation
10. Grant and revoke are _____ statements.
Answer: Data Control Language (DCL)

11. Which command cannot be used to modify the data in a database?


Answer: SELECT

12. A transaction for which all committed changes are permanent is called _____.
Answer: Durable transaction

Additional Questions

1. What is an instance of a database?


Answer: A snapshot of the database at a particular moment in time.

2. What is the good database management practice?


Answer: Normalization and proper indexing.
3. What is a relation in RDBMS?
Answer: A table with rows and columns.
4. _____ is the time of temporal data that records when a fact was recorded in a database.
Answer: Timestamp

5. What is a candidate key?


Answer: A minimal set of attributes that can uniquely identify a tuple.

6. If the database modifications occur while the transaction is still active, the transaction is
said to use the _____ modification technique.
Answer: Deferred

7. What is view?
Answer: A virtual table derived from one or more tables.
8. The view of total database content is _____.
Answer: Schema

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9. In an E-R diagram, attributes are represented by _____.
Answer: Ovals

10. _____ clause is an additional filter that is applied to the result.


Answer: WHERE

11. What do you mean by data independence?


Answer: The ability to change the schema at one level without affecting the schema at the next level.
12. Which forms are based on the concept of transitive functional dependency?
Answer: Third Normal Form (3NF)

Let me know if you need additional clarifications or detailed explanations for any of the answers!

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