Important Questions from UNIT-1 & UNIT-2

Short Answer Type Questions

1. List out attributes types?

2. What is data independence?
3. Define terms, weak and strong entity sets?
4. Explain about SELECT and PROJECT operation in Relational algebra?
5. Is table and relation same? Give an example?
6. Summarize the advantages of DBMS over File systems
7. Describe about ER model-entity, attribute, and relationship
8. state about views-creation and destruction
9. List out the roles of DBA?
10. Define Instance and Schema?
11. Discuss the basic form of SQL Query?
12. What are Updatable views
13. What do you mean by DBMS and RDBMS
14. List all the people who work with databases
15. What is weak entity set and identifying relationship set?
16. Discuss briefly about Set Operations in relational algebra
17. Describe briefly various levels of abstraction
18. List out database design steps

Long Answer Type Questions

1. Explain the following terms briefly

a. Entity and entity set,
b. Attribute and types of attributes
c. Relationship and relationship set
d. Mapping constraints and Participation constraints
e. Overlap constraints and Covering constraints
2. Compare and contrast physical data independence and logical data independence?
3. List the advantages of views .Give an example for creating and dropping a view?
4. Using the following schema, write the corresponding queries in relational algebra?
SAILORS (SID, SNAME, RATING, AGE)
RESERVES (SID, BID, DAY)
BOATS (BID, BNAME, COLOR)
a) Find the names of sailors who have reserved a blue or a yellow boat?
b) Find the sid of sailors with age less than 18 who have not reserved a green boat?
c) Find the name of sailors who have reserved all boats called Grace?
5. Explain the structure of DBMS with help a neat diagram
6. Specify different integrity constraints and explain with examples?
7. Design the ER model representing Ternary relationship and Aggregation with suitable examples?
8. Compare and contrast expressive power of TRC and DRC using examples?
9. Develop a ER Model for a hospital with a set of patients and doctors. Identify entities, Attributes
for entities, Relationships and Key Attributes.
10. Differentiate between file systems and DBMS?
11. Using the following schema answer the following queries
SAILORS (SID integer, SNAME CHAR2 (10), RATING integer, AGE integer);
BOATS (BID integer, BNAME CHAR (10), COLOR CHAR(10));
RESERVES (SID integer, BID integer, DAY DATE);
a. Create view on SAILORS TABLE to select sailor name,age and rating from the table.
b. Find the names of sailors who have reserved a red boat and green boat?
c. Display the sids of sailors who have rating > 18
12. List any four fundamental operations in relational algebra with examples (take your own
relations).
13. Explain what is a data model? Discuss various types of data models
14. Write in detail advantages of DBMS over typical file processing system
15. What are various types of constraints that can be defined while designing a relation? Explain
with suitable examples
16. Compare and contrast condition Join, equi-join and natural join with an example
17. What are safe queries and unsafe queries. Explain them with suitable examples
18. Write short notes on i) Relational completeness ii) Free and Bound variables iii)DDL & DML