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c6-r3: Advanced Database Management Systems Note: 1.

This document provides a set of questions for an exam on advanced database management systems. It covers topics such as relational calculus, normalization, distributed databases, object-oriented and object-relational databases, data warehousing, parallel databases, transactions, XML, and data mining. The questions test understanding of concepts like functional dependencies, multivalued dependencies, statistics for query optimization, database triggers, commit protocols, and concurrency control protocols.

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c6-r3: Advanced Database Management Systems Note: 1.

This document provides a set of questions for an exam on advanced database management systems. It covers topics such as relational calculus, normalization, distributed databases, object-oriented and object-relational databases, data warehousing, parallel databases, transactions, XML, and data mining. The questions test understanding of concepts like functional dependencies, multivalued dependencies, statistics for query optimization, database triggers, commit protocols, and concurrency control protocols.

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C6-R3: ADVANCED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

NOTE:
1. Answer question 1 and any FOUR questions from 2 to 7.
2. Parts of the same question should be answered together and in the same
sequence.
Time: 3 Hours Total Marks: 100

1.
a) How does Tuple-oriented relational calculus differ from domain-oriented relational calculus?
b) Define multivalued dependency (MVD). How is multivalued dependency concept useful in
Normalization? How is it related to 4NF?
c) Explain, how statistics allow to estimate the sizes and costs of executing the operations in
querying optimization.
d) What are the advantages of a distributed database management system over a centralized
DBMS?
e) What are cursors? List different types of cursors.
f) What is database Trigger? Name and explain two utilities of Oracle, which are useful for
back up and recovery.
g) OODB and ORDB are two database systems. Which of them are considered to provide
better protection and inheritance? Justify which one of them has superior performance.
(7x4)

2.
a) A B C is a set of attributes. The functional dependency is as follows
AB → B
AC → C
C →B
What is the normal form for the above? Give reasons.
b) How does the concept of an object in the object-oriented model differ from the concept of an
entity in the entity-relationship model?
c) Explain, what are commit protocols for distributed databases.
d) Explain in brief about Multimedia databases. Where are multimedia databases used in
applications?
(5+5+4+4)

3.
a) Explain overall process of program preparation and execution in DB2. Explain major
components of DB2 in brief.
b) When is a functional dependency F said to be minimal?
c) What is phantom deadlock in distributed database system?
d) What are foreign key constraints? Why such constraints are important? What is referential
integrity?
(5+4+3+6)

4.
a) What are the important exponents of a client/server application?
b) What do you mean by Multi database system in the context of distributed DBMS? Explain in
brief.
c) What are the salient features of ROLAP and MOLAP servers?
d) Can it be possible to mine directly from database? Why do you require separate
warehouses?
(5+5+4+4)

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5.
a) Differentiate between homogeneous distributed database management systems and
heterogeneous distributed database management systems.
b) Consider the following employee database:
employee (person-name, street, city)
works (person-name, company-name, salary)
company (company-name, city)
manages (person-name, manager-name)
Give expressions in datalog for each of the following queries.

i) To find all employees who work (directly or indirectly) under the manager “Jones”.
ii) To find all cities of residence of all employees who work (directly or indirectly) under
the manager “Smith”.
c) Which are the three commonly used partitioning techniques for parallel databases? Explain
in brief.
d) What are database log files? What is the minimum number of log file should a database
have?
(4+4+6+4)

6.
a) What are the key properties of long duration transactions? How do concurrency protocols
affect long duration transactions?
b) Explain the concept of the object identity and reference in object relational database.
c) Differentiate between OLTP and OLAP with respect to various parameters.
d) Do main memory databases provide more opportunities for optimization? Elaborate.
(8+4+3+3)

7.
a) What is the content of XML documents? What is specified by Document type Declaration
(DTD)?
b) What do you mean by Correlated subquery? What do you mean by recursive queries?
c) What is transaction workflow? How can it be specified?
d) Differentiate between clustering and classification.
(6+5+3+4)

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