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Semester 1, 2014 LECTURE 13 (FINAL)


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USAGE OF SLIDES
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EXAMINATION PREPARATION
Practice exam will be posted during final week of
semester
Take the practice exam under exam conditions
Work through the exercises in module 8 of the Study Book
model answers are included
If required, review data modelling / normalisation
exercises in tutorials
Review multiple-choice questions in tutorials & study desk

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EXAM PAPER

1. SQL (Multiple Choice Questions) (20%)
2. SQL Queries (15%) (5 Questions)
3. Data Modelling (ERD, list of relations, CREATE TABLE) (35%)
4. Normalisation (20%)
5. Database Theory (10%)


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SQL (Multiple Choice Questions) 20%
20 questions - answer all questions
If you are not sure, attempt to eliminate answers
that are clearly incorrect
SQL queries drawn largely from the material
covered in chapters 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
maybe a couple from chapters 4 or 5 maximum!
Only the most important functions are examinable
in the written SQL section but ANY function
could come in this section.
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SQL Queries 15%
Five intermediate to advanced SQL queries, of which the
BEST three will count. You can get two wrong without
losing any marks!
Based on chapters 3 and 8 12 of the textbook
Focus on topics such as WHERE conditions including
LIKE, set operators, table joins, sub-queries, and
functions with the use of GROUP BY and HAVING
clauses.
The following functions are examinable:
Single Row Functions (SUBSTR, ROUND, TRUNC,
MONTHS_BETWEEN, ADD_MONTHS, TO_DATE,
TO_CHAR, SYSDATE, NVL)
Group Functions (SUM, AVG, COUNT, MAX and MIN)
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Data Modelling - 35%
A case study of limited scope
Read carefully looking for nouns that will be
entities sometimes verbs
Look carefully for entities that can be broken
down into categories TYPE with principal and
secondary entities
Often at least one TYPE but dont look for this
everywhere



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Data Modelling - 35%
Resolve all M:M relationships via an intersection entity
Underline and hash primary keys in list of relations
Hash but no underline in foreign keys
Many foreign keys read directly from ERD mandatory
one on the opposite side indicates a foreign key
Review the structure of TYPE/SECONDARY entities
make sure you place a mandatory one on the principal
entity and optional one on each of the secondaries


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Data Modelling - 35%
Double check the ERD and list of relations so that all
entities and relationships in your ERD are properly
reflected in the list of relations along with the attributes.
You may also be asked to write a SQL command to create
table for a relation along with primary key and foreign key
constraints (you must assume logical data types for the
table columns).
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Normalisation - 20%
STEP 1 identify the primary key (hash and underline)
STEP 2 identify derived attributes (place curly brackets
around them)
STEP 3 remove repeating groups. Often the biggest
problem. Anything with curved brackets is a repeating
group which means a M:M relationship with the enclosing
relation split such relations!
STEP 4 resolve 2NF where non-key attribute must be
functionally dependent on the WHOLE key
STEP 5 resolve transitive dependencies, i.e. where one
non-key attribute depends upon another
Make sure you address all the additional notes provided
along with the unnormalised (0NF) relation.
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Database Theory - 10%
See list of possible database theory topics on the Study
Desk (under ASSESSMENT)
THEORY TOPICS FOR THE EXAMINATION
One or two questions may be drawn from these topics but
they may not be exactly the same question.
The questions will however be related to one of the theory
topics presented here.
Prepare by gaining an overall concept of the theory topics
by reading selected readings. Try to understand key
definitions, concepts, examples, advantages/
disadvantages, architecture diagrams, etc.
You may be required to provide an analytical answer
rather than purely descriptive.
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BEST OF LUCK!!!
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