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DBMS Some Important Questions

This document contains 35 questions about database management systems (DBMS) and relational algebra. It asks about key concepts like what a DBMS is, the need for databases, the differences between data and information, metadata, data warehouses, constraints, relationships, and more. It also contains 10 questions about relational algebra and its basic operations like select, project, join, union, intersection, minus, and divide. The document covers fundamental topics in DBMS and relational algebra.

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DBMS Some Important Questions

This document contains 35 questions about database management systems (DBMS) and relational algebra. It asks about key concepts like what a DBMS is, the need for databases, the differences between data and information, metadata, data warehouses, constraints, relationships, and more. It also contains 10 questions about relational algebra and its basic operations like select, project, join, union, intersection, minus, and divide. The document covers fundamental topics in DBMS and relational algebra.

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Some important questions - DBMS

1. What do you mean by a DBMS


2. Explain the need of databases in today business environment or why we need databases or DBMS software.
3. What do you mean by data and information explains with example of each.
4. What is the term meta data
5. What is data warehouse
6. What are constraints in dbms
7. What do you mean by primary key constraint
8. User interact with the Application software whereas application software interacts with the DBMS which further
handles the stored database, procedures. Explain the flow of interaction
9. Difference between TPS (Traditional File processing system) and DBMS (database management system)
10. List some features of DBMS system
11. What do you mean by SQL (Structure query language)
12. What is DDL, DML, and DCL types of SQL languages
13. Different types of DBMS users available Casual user, Naïve user, Database Designer, Programmers, DBA etc.
14. Write some responsibilities of DBA or explain its role
15. What do you mean by schema design
16. Explain Three different types of DBMS Model
17. What are relationships explain DBMS relationships types one to one, one to many, many to many, many to one.
18. What is a primary and foreign key relationship. Can you explain with example of student and library tables.
19. What are null values or what is the use of null values
20. Null values are ___________________
21. Atomic value is a ________________value
22. Tuple is known as _____________________
23. Attributes are also known as _______________________
24. Domain of values is _________________________
25. Cardinality of relation is ___________________
26. Degree of relation is ______________________
27. Schema consists _________________and ______________
28. Relation is also known as ________________
29. A table record is also known as tuple (True/False)
30. Property of relation is heading and body where heading are the attributes and body contains set of rows (True/False)
31. Write down some specific properties of relations
32. What is a candidate key
33. What is an alternate key
34. What is a super key
35. What is a composite key

Relational Algebra
1. What is relational algebra or what its purpose
2. Write down basic operations of Relational Algebra and their syntaxes of each of them.
3. What is the meaning of Select operation could you please write the relational algebra for the below query and given
schemas
Write down the relational algebra query for the account table –

“Find the all accounts detail whose balance less than 400”
“Display all the tuples whose account is in Los Angeles”

4. What is project operation explain below relational algebra query using project operation

“Display all the acc_id from the accounts available”

“Display all the acc_id, balance from the accounts available”

5. What do you mean by join operation explain with below example. Student and library table where both tables has
one common key student Id.
“Find the records of student who have at least one library book”

6. What do you mean by Cartesian product explain by taking any example. If student has 4 records and library has 3
records then how many records will be in Cartesian product?
7. What do you mean by union explain with the help of example.

“Find the names of the customers who have either a bank account or a loan account i.e. have ether a acc_id or
loan_id”

8. Explain intersection operation and answer the query


“Print the names of the customers who have both types of accounts bank and loan account.”

9. Explain the minus operator by answer the below query in relational algebra
“Print the customer names who have only bank accounts i.e. persons who have no loan account.”

10. Explain the divide operation and answer the below query in relational algebra

“Write down the names of the persons who solved all the puzzles”

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