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ER‐model. Relational model:Relational algebra, Tuple calculus, SQL. Integrity constraints, Normal forms. File organization, Indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees). Transactions and concurrency control.

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​​​​​If a relational decomposition is not dependency-preserving, which one of the following relational operators will be executed more frequently in order to maintain the...
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Consider the following three relations: $\text{Car (model, year, $\underline{\text{serial}}$, color)}$ $\text{Make (maker, $\underline{\text{model}}$)}$ ...
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On a relation named $\text{Loan}$ of a bank:\[\begin{array}{|c|}\hline\textbf{Loan} \\\hline\begin{array}{c|c|c}\textbf{loan_number} & \textbf{branch_name} & \textbf{amou...
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Consider the following two relations, named $\text{Customer}$ and $\text{Person},$ in a database:Person ( aadhaar CHAR(12) PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(32)); Customer ( name...
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​​Consider a database relation $\text{R}$ with attributes $\text{ABCDEFG}$, and having the following functional dependencies:\[\mathrm{A} \rightarrow \mathrm{BCEF} \quad ...
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Consider the following tables, $\text{Loan}$ and $\text{Borrower},$ of a bank.\[\begin{array}{|c|}\hline\textbf{Loan} \\\hline\begin{array}{c|c|c}\textbf{loan\_number} & ...
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Consider the database transactions T1 and T2 , and data items X and Y . Which of the schedule(s) is/are conflict serializable?$$\begin{array}{|ll|} \hline \textbf{Transa...
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Consider the following relational schema: Students ($\underline{\text{rollno: integer}},$ name: string, age: integer, cgpa: real) Courses ($\underline{\text{courseno: int...
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In a $\mathrm{B}^{+}$- tree where each node can hold at most four key values, a root to leaf path consists of the following nodes:\[\mathrm{A}=(49,77,83,-), \mathrm{B}=(7...
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​​​​An audit of a banking transactions system has found that on an earlier occasion, two joint holders of account $A$ attempted simultaneous transfers of Rs. $10000$ each...
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​​​​Consider the following relational schema along with all the functional dependencies that hold on them.\[\begin{array}{l}R 1(A, B, C, D, E):\{D \rightarrow E, E A \rig...
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A schedule of three database transactions $T_{1}, T_{2}$, and $T_{3}$ is shown. $R_{i}(A)$ and $W_{i}(A)$ denote read and write of data item $A$ by transaction $T_{i}, i=...
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Consider the following $B^{+}$tree with $5$ nodes, in which a node can store at most $3$ key values The value $23$ is now inserted in the $B^{+}$tree. Which of the follow...
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Consider two relations describing teams and players in a sports league:teams(tid, tname): tid, tname are team-id and team-name, respectivelyplayers(pid,pname,tid): pid, p...
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Consider a relational schema team $\text{(name,city,owner)}$, with functional dependencies $\{\text{name} \rightarrow \text{city}, \text{name} \rightarrow \text{owner} \}...
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Consider the following database tables of a sports league.player (pid, pname, age) team(tid, tname, city, cid) coach (cid, cname) members (pid,tid)An instance of the tabl...
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Consider a relation R(ABCD) where {AB - CD, D - A}. Check for BCNF, and if found to be violating it's conditions, decompose and tell the candidate keys for each table.
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If table R has only one candidate key, then which of the following is always true?R is in 2NF, but is not in 3NFR is in 3NF, it is also in BCNFR is in 2NF, bu...
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Consider the following FD set : { P - QR, Q - PR, R - PQ}Which of the following is/are the minimal cover for the above FD set? A) P - Q, Q - R, R - PB) P - R, Q - R, R - ...
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