DBMS Lab - Manual - Edited - 2023-24
DBMS Lab - Manual - Edited - 2023-24
BELAGAVI
LAB MANAUL
of
DBMS LABORATORY WITH MINI PROJECT
Subject Code: 21CSL55
For
V SEMESTER B.E
COMPUTER SCIENCE &ENGINEERING
2023-24
Compiled by
Ms. Shravya S
Asst Prof., Dept of CS&E
CEC, Bengaluru
INTRODUCTION TO SQL
CREATE SCHEMA
Specifies a new database schema by giving it a name
CREATE TABLE
Specifies a new base relation by giving it a name, and specifying each of its attributes and
their data types
Syntax of CREATE Command:
CREATE TABLE <table name> ( <Attribute A1> <Data Type D1> [< Constarints>],
<Attribute A2> <Data Type D2> [< Constarints>],
…….
<Attribute An> <Data Type Dn> [< Constarints>],
[<integrity-constraint1>, <integrity-constraint k> ] );
- A constraint NOT NULL may be specified on an attribute
A constraint NOT NULL may be specified on an attribute
Ex: CREATE TABLE DEPARTMENT (
DNAME VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
DNUMBER INTEGER NOT NULL,
MGRSSN CHAR(9), MGRSTARTDATE CHAR(9) );
Specifying the unique, primary key attributes, secondary keys, and referential integrity
constraints (foreign keys).
Ex: CREATE TABLE DEPT (
DNAME VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
DNUMBER INTEGER NOT NULL,
MGRSSN CHAR(9),
MGRSTARTDATE CHAR(9),
PRIMARY KEY (DNUMBER),
UNIQUE (DNAME),
ALTER TABLE:
Used to add an attribute to/from one of the base relations drop constraint -- The new
attribute will have NULLs in all the tuples of the relation right after the command is
executed; hence, the NOT NULL constraint is not allowed for such an attribute.
Example: ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE ADD JOB VARCHAR2 (12);
The database users must still enter a value for the new attribute JOB for each
EMPLOYEE tuple. This can be done using the UPDATE command.
In Q2, there are two join conditions The join condition DNUM=DNUMBER relates a project to
its controlling department The join condition MGRSSN=SSN relates the controlling department
to the employee who manages that department
UNSPECIFIED WHERE-clause
A missing WHERE-clause indicates no condition; hence, all tuples of the relations in the
FROM-clause are selected. This is equivalent to the condition WHERE TRUE
Example:
Query 4: Retrieve the SSN values for all employees.
Q4: SELECT SSN FROM EMPLOYEE
If more than one relation is specified in the FROM-clause and there is no join condition, then the
CARTESIAN PRODUCT of tuples is selected
Example:
Q5: SELECT SSN, DNAME FROM EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT
Note: It is extremely important not to overlook specifying any selection and join conditions in
the WHERE-clause; otherwise, incorrect and very large relations may result
USE OF *
To retrieve all the attribute values of the selected tuples, a * is used, which stands for all the
attributes
Examples:
Retrieve all the attribute values of EMPLOYEES who work in department 5.
Q1a: SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE DNO=5
Retrieve all the attributes of an employee and attributes of DEPARTMENT he works in for
every employee of ‘Research’ department.
USE OF DISTINCT
SQL does not treat a relation as a set; duplicate tuples can appear. To eliminate duplicate
tuples in a queryresult, the keyword DISTINCT is used
Example: the result of Q1c may have duplicate SALARY values whereas Q1d does not have
any duplicate values
SET OPERATIONS
SQL has directly incorporated some set operations such as union operation (UNION), set
difference (MINUS) and intersection (INTERSECT) operations. The resulting relations of these
set operations are sets of tuples; duplicate tuples are eliminated from the result. The set
operations apply only to union compatible relations; the two relations must have the same
attributes and the attributes must appear in the same order
Query 5: Make a list of all project numbers for projects that involve an employee whose
last name is 'Smith' as a worker or as a manager of the department that controls the
project.
Q5: (SELECT PNAME FROM PROJECT, DEPARTMENT, EMPLOYEE WHERE
DNUM=DNUMBER AND MGRSSN=SSN AND LNAME='Smith')
UNION
NESTING OF QUERIES
A complete SELECT query, called a nested query, can be specified within the WHERE-
clause of another query, called the outer query. Many of the previous queries can be specified in
an alternative form using nesting
Query 6: Retrieve the name and address of all employees who work for the 'Research'
department.
Note: In Q8, the correlated nested query retrieves all DEPENDENT tuples related to an
EMPLOYEE tuple. If none exist, the EMPLOYEE tuple is selected
EXPLICIT SETS
It is also possible to use an explicit (enumerated) set of values in the WHERE-clause
rather than a nested query
Query 9: Retrieve the social security numbers of all employees who work on project
number 1, 2, or 3.
Note: If a join condition is specified, tuples with NULL values for the join attributes are not
included in the result
AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS
Include COUNT, SUM, MAX, MIN, and AVG
Query 11: Find the maximum salary, the minimum salary, and the average salary among
all employees.
Q11: SELECT MAX (SALARY), MIN(SALARY), AVG(SALARY)
FROM EMPLOYEE
Note: Some SQL implementations may not allow more than one function in the SELECT-clause
Query 12: Find the maximum salary, the minimum salary, and the average salary among
employees who work for the 'Research' department.
Q12: SELECT MAX (SALARY), MIN(SALARY), AVG(SALARY) FROM
EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT WHERE DNO=DNUMBER AND DNAME='Research'
Queries 13 and 14: Retrieve the total number of employees in the company (Q13), and the
number of employees in the 'Research' department (Q14).
Q13: SELECT COUNT (*) FROM EMPLOYEE
Q14: SELECT COUNT (*) FROM EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT
GROUPING
In many cases, we want to apply the aggregate functions to subgroups of tuples in a
relation
Each subgroup of tuples consists of the set of tuples that have the same value for the
grouping attribute(s)
The function is applied to each subgroup independently
SQL has a GROUP BY-clause for specifying the grouping attributes, which must also
appear in the SELECT-clause
Query 15: For each department, retrieve the department number, the number of
employees in the department, and their average salary.
Q15: SELECT DNO, COUNT (*), AVG (SALARY)
FROM EMPLOYEE GROUP BY DNO
In Q15, the EMPLOYEE tuples are divided into groups. Each group having the same
value for the grouping attribute DNO
The COUNT and AVG functions are applied to each such group of tuples separately
The SELECT-clause includes only the grouping attribute and the functions to be applied
on each group of tuples
A join condition can be used in conjunction with grouping
Query 16: For each project, retrieve the project number, project name, and the number of
employees who work on that project.
Q16: SELECT PNUMBER, PNAME, COUNT (*)
THE HAVING-CLAUSE
Sometimes we want to retrieve the values of these functions for only those groups that
satisfy certain conditions. The HAVING-clause is used for specifying a selection condition on
groups (rather than on individual tuples)
Query 17: For each project on which more than two employees work, retrieve the project
number, project name, and the number of employees who work on that project.
Q17: SELECT PNUMBER, PNAME, COUNT (*)
FROM PROJECT, WORKS_ON
WHERE PNUMBER=PNO
GROUP BY PNUMBER, PNAME
SUBSTRING COMPARISON
The LIKE comparison operator is used to compare partial strings. Two reserved
characters are used: '%' (or '*' in some implementations) replaces an arbitrary number of
characters, and '_' replaces a single arbitrary character.
Query 18: Retrieve all employees whose address is in Houston, Texas. Here, the value of the
ADDRESS attribute must contain the substring 'Houston,TX‘ in it.
Q18: SELECT FNAME, LNAME
FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE ADDRESS LIKE '%Houston,TX%'
Query 19: Retrieve all employees who were born during the 1950s.
Here, '5' must be the 8th character of the string (according to our format for date), so the
BDATE value is ' 5_', with each underscore as a place holder for a single arbitrary
character.
Q19: SELECT FNAME, LNAME
FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE BDATE LIKE '_ 5_’
Note: The LIKE operator allows us to get around the fact that each value is considered atomic
and indivisible. Hence, in SQL, character string attribute values are not atomic
ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS
The standard arithmetic operators '+', '-'. '*', and '/' (for addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division, respectively) can be applied to numeric values in an SQL query
result
Query 20: Show the effect of giving all employees who work on the 'ProductX' project a
10% raise.
Q20: SELECT FNAME, LNAME, 1.1*SALARY
FROM EMPLOYEE, WORKS_ON, PROJECT
WHERE SSN=ESSN
AND PNO=PNUMBER AND PNAME='ProductX’
ORDER BY
The ORDER BY clause is used to sort the tuples in a query result based on the values of
some attribute(s)
Query 21: Retrieve a list of employees and the projects each works in, ordered by the
employee's department, and within each department ordered alphabetically by employee
last name.
Q21: SELECT DNAME, LNAME, FNAME, PNAME
FROM DEPARTMENT, EMPLOYEE, WORKS_ON, PROJECT
WHERE DNUMBER=DNO
AND SSN=ESSN
AND PNO=PNUMBER
ORDER BY DNAME, LNAME
The default order is in ascending order of values. We can specify the keyword DESC if
we want a descending order; the keyword ASC can be used to explicitly specify ascending order,
even though it is the default
Ex: ORDER BY DNAME DESC, LNAME ASC, FNAME ASC
Query 22: Retrieve the names of all employees who have two or more dependents.
Q22: SELECT LNAME, FNAME FROM
EMPLOYEE
There are three SQL commands to modify the database: INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE.
INSERT
Note: The DEPTS_INFO table may not be up-to-date if we change the tuples in either the
DEPARTMENT or the EMPLOYEE relations after issuing the above. We have to create a view
(see later) to keep such a table up to date.
DELETE
Removes tuples from a relation. Includes a WHERE-clause to select the tuples to be
deleted
Referential integrity should be enforced
Tuples are deleted from only one table at a time (unless CASCADE is specified on a
referential integrity constraint)
A missing WHERE-clause specifies that all tuples in the relation are to be deleted; the
table then becomes an empty table
The number of tuples deleted depends on the number of tuples in the relation that satisfy
the WHERE-clause
Examples:
1: DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE LNAME='Brown’;
2: DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE SSN='123456789’;
3: DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE DNO IN (SELECT DNUMBER
FROM DEPARTMENT WHERE DNAME='Research');
UPDATE
Used to modify attribute values of one or more selected tuples
A WHERE-clause selects the tuples to be modified
An additional SET-clause specifies the attributes to be modified and their new values
Each command modifies tuples in the same relation
Referential integrity should be enforced
Example1: Change the location and controlling department number of project number 10 to
'Bellaire' and 5, respectively.
UPDATE PROJECT
SET PLOCATION = 'Bellaire', DNUM = 5 WHERE PNUMBER=10;
Example2: Give all employees in the 'Research' department a 10% raise in salary.
UPDATE EMPLOYEE
SET SALARY = SALARY *1.1
WHERE DNO IN (SELECT DNUMBER FROM DEPARTMENT
WHERE DNAME='Research');
SQL TRIGGERS
Objective: to monitor a database and take initiate action when a condition occurs
Triggers are nothing but the procedures/functions that involve actions and fired/executed
automatically whenever an event occurs such as an insert, delete, or update operation or
pressing a button or when mouse button is clicked
VIEWS IN SQL
A view is a single virtual table that is derived from other tables. The other tables could be
base tables or previously defined view.
Allows for limited update operations Since the table may not physically be stored
Allows full query operations
A convenience for expressing certain operations
A view does not necessarily exist in physical form, which limits the possible update
operations that can be applied to views.
LAB EXPERIMENTS
Solution:
Entity-Relationship Diagram
Schema Diagram
Book
Book_Authors
Book_id Author_name
Publisher
Book_Copies
Book_Lending
Library_Programme
Table Creation
DESC PUBLISHER;
DESC BOOK;
DESC BOOK_AUTHORS;
DESC LIBRARY_BRANCH;
DESC BOOK_COPIES;
DESC CARD;
DESC BOOK_LENDING;
Queries:
1. Retrieve details of all books in the library – id, title, name of publisher, authors,
number of copies in each programme etc.
2. Get the particulars of borrowers who have borrowed more than 3 books, but from
Jan 2017 to Jun 2017.
SELECT CARD_NO
FROM BOOK_LENDING
WHERE DATE_OUT BETWEEN ’01-JAN-2017’ AND ’01-JUL-2017’
GROUP BY CARD_NO
HAVING COUNT (*)>3;
3. Delete a book in BOOK table. Update the contents of other tables to reflect this data
manipulation operation.
4. Partition the BOOK table based on year of publication. Demonstrate its working with a
simple query.
5. Create a view of all books and its number of copies that are currently available in the
Library.
Solution:
Entity-Relationship Diagram
Schema Diagram
Salesman
Customer
Orders
Ord_No Purchase_Amt Ord_Date Customer_id Salesman_id
Table Creation
Table Descriptions
DESC SALESMAN;
DESC CUSTOMER;
DESC ORDERS;
Table Description:
Queries:
2. Find the name and numbers of all salesmen who had more than one customer.
3. List all salesmen and indicate those who have and don’t have customers in their
cities (Use UNION operation.)
4. Create a view that finds the salesman who has the customer with the highest order
of a day.
5. Demonstrate the DELETE operation by removing salesman with id 1000. All his
orders must also be deleted.
Solution:
Entity-Relationship Diagram
Schema Diagram
Actor
Act_id Act_Name Act_Gender
Director
Dir_id Dir_Name Dir_Phone
Movies
Mov_id Mov_Title Mov_Year Mov_Lang Dir_id
Movie_Cast
Act_id Mov_id Role
Rating
Mov_id Rev_Stars
Table Creation
Table Descriptions
DESC ACTOR;
DESC DIRECTOR;
DESC MOVIES;
DESC MOVIE_CAST;
DESC RATING;
Queries:
SELECT MOV_TITLE
FROM MOVIES
WHERE DIR_ID IN (SELECT DIR_ID
FROM DIRECTOR
WHERE DIR_NAME = ‘HITCHCOCK’);
2. Find the movie names where one or more actors acted in two or more movies.
SELECT MOV_TITLE
FROM MOVIES M, MOVIE_CAST MV
WHERE M.MOV_ID=MV.MOV_ID AND ACT_ID IN (SELECT ACT_ID
FROM MOVIE_CAST GROUP BY ACT_ID
HAVING COUNT (ACT_ID)>1)
GROUP BY MOV_TITLE
HAVING COUNT (*)>1;
3. List all actors who acted in a movie before 2000 and also in a movie after 2015 (use
JOIN operation).
JOIN MOVIE_CAST C
ON A.ACT_ID=C.ACT_ID
JOIN MOVIES M
ON C.MOV_ID=M.MOV_ID
WHERE M.MOV_YEAR NOT BETWEEN 2000 AND 2015;
OR
4. Find the title of movies and number of stars for each movie that has at least one
rating and find the highest number of stars that movie received. Sort the result by
movie title.
UPDATE RATING
SET REV_STARS=5
WHERE MOV_ID IN (SELECT MOV_ID FROM MOVIES
WHERE DIR_ID IN (SELECT DIR_ID
FROM DIRECTOR
WHERE DIR_NAME = ‘STEVEN
SPIELBERG’));
Schema Diagram
Table Creation
Table Descriptions
DESC STUDENT;
DESC SEMSEC;
DESC CLASS;
DESC SUBJECT;
DESC IAMARKS;
INSERT INTO IAMARKS (USN, SUBCODE, SSID, TEST1, TEST2, TEST3) VALUES
('1AP13CS091','10CS81','CSE8C', 15, 16, 18);
INSERT INTO IAMARKS (USN, SUBCODE, SSID, TEST1, TEST2, TEST3) VALUES
('1AP13CS091','10CS82','CSE8C', 12, 19, 14);
INSERT INTO IAMARKS (USN, SUBCODE, SSID, TEST1, TEST2, TEST3) VALUES
('1AP13CS091','10CS83','CSE8C', 19, 15, 20);
INSERT INTO IAMARKS (USN, SUBCODE, SSID, TEST1, TEST2, TEST3) VALUES
('1AP13CS091','10CS84','CSE8C', 20, 16, 19);
INSERT INTO IAMARKS (USN, SUBCODE, SSID, TEST1, TEST2, TEST3) VALUES
('1AP13CS091','10CS85','CSE8C', 15, 15, 12);
Queries:
1. List all the student details studying in fourth semester ‘C’ section.
SELECT S.*, SS.SEM, SS.SEC
FROM STUDENT S, SEMSEC SS, CLASS C
WHERE S.USN = C.USN AND
SS.SSID = C.SSID AND
SS.SEM = 4 AND
SS.SEc=’C’;
2. Compute the total number of male and female students in each semester and in each
section.
4. Calculate the FinalIA (average of best two test marks) and update the corresponding
table for all students.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE AVGMARKS
IS
CURSOR C_IAMARKS IS
SELECT GREATEST(TEST1,TEST2) AS A, GREATEST(TEST1,TEST3) AS B,
GREATEST(TEST3,TEST2) AS C
FROM IAMARKS
WHERE FINALIA IS NULL
FOR UPDATE;
C_A NUMBER;
C_B NUMBER;
C_C NUMBER;
C_SM NUMBER;
C_AV NUMBER;
BEGIN
OPEN C_IAMARKS;
LOOP
FETCH C_IAMARKS INTO C_A, C_B, C_C;
EXIT WHEN C_IAMARKS%NOTFOUND;
--DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(C_A || ' ' || C_B || ' ' || C_C);
IF (C_A != C_B) THEN
C_SM:=C_A+C_B;
ELSE
C_SM:=C_A+C_C;
END IF;
C_AV:=C_SM/2;
--DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('SUM = '||C_SM);
--DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('AVERAGE = '||C_AV);
END LOOP;
CLOSE C_IAMARKS;
END;
/
Note: Before execution of PL/SQL procedure, IAMARKS table contents are:
Below SQL code is to invoke the PL/SQL stored procedure from the command line:
BEGIN
AVGMARKS;
END;
SELECT S.USN,S.SNAME,S.ADDRESS,S.PHONE,S.GENDER,
(CASE
WHEN IA.FINALIA BETWEEN 17 AND 20 THEN 'OUTSTANDING'
WHEN IA.FINALIA BETWEEN 12 AND 16 THEN 'AVERAGE'
ELSE 'WEAK'
END) AS CAT
FROM STUDENT S, SEMSEC SS, IAMARKS IA, SUBJECT SUB
WHERE S.USN = IA.USN AND
SS.SSID = IA.SSID AND
SUB.SUBCODE = IA.SUBCODE AND
SUB.SEM = 8;
Entity-Relationship Diagram
Schema Diagram
Employee
Department
DLocation
DNO DLOC
Project
Works_on
Table Creation
NOTE: Once DEPARTMENT and EMPLOYEE tables are created we must alter department
table to add foreign constraint MGRSSN using sql command
Table Descriptions
DESC EMPLOYEE;
DESC DEPARTMENT;
DESC DLOCATION;
DESC PROJECT;
DESC WORKS_ON;
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSECE01’,’JOHN’,’SCOTT’,’BANGALORE’,’M’, 450000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSCSE01’,’JAMES’,’SMITH’,’BANGALORE’,’M’, 500000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSCSE02’,’HEARN’,’BAKER’,’BANGALORE’,’M’, 700000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSCSE03’,’EDWARD’,’SCOTT’,’MYSORE’,’M’, 500000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSCSE04’,’PAVAN’,’HEGDE’,’MANGALORE’,’M’, 650000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSCSE05’,’GIRISH’,’MALYA’,’MYSORE’,’M’, 450000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSCSE06’,’NEHA’,’SN’,’BANGALORE’,’F’, 800000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSACC01’,’AHANA’,’K’,’MANGALORE’,’F’, 350000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSACC02’,’SANTHOSH’,’KUMAR’,’MANGALORE’,’M’, 300000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSISE01’,’VEENA’,’M’,’MYSORE’,’M’, 600000);
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (SSN, FNAME, LNAME, ADDRESS, SEX, SALARY) VALUES
(‘APSIT01’,’NAGESH’,’HR’,’BANGALORE’,’M’, 500000);
Note: update entries of employee table to fill missing fields SUPERSSN and DNO
Queries:
1. Make a list of all project numbers for projects that involve an employee whose last
name is ‘Scott’, either as a worker or as a manager of the department that controls the
project.
2. Show the resulting salaries if every employee working on the ‘IoT’ project is given a 10
percent raise.
SELECT E.FNAME, E.LNAME, 1.1*E.SALARY AS INCR_SAL
FROM EMPLOYEE E, WORKS_ON W, PROJECT P
WHERE E.SSN=W.SSN
AND W.PNO=P.PNO
AND P.PNAME=’IOT’;
3. Find the sum of the salaries of all employees of the ‘Accounts’ department, as well as
the maximum salary, the minimum salary, and the average salary in this department
4. Retrieve the name of each employee who works on all the projects Controlled by
department number 5 (use NOT EXISTS operator).
SELECT E.FNAME, E.LNAME
FROM EMPLOYEE E
WHERE NOT EXISTS((SELECT PNO
FROM PROJECT
WHERE DNO=’5’)
MINUS (SELECT PNO
FROM WORKS_ON
WHERE E.SSN=SSN));
5. For each department that has more than five employees, retrieve the department
number and the number of its employees who are making more than Rs. 6, 00,000.
SELECT D.DNO, COUNT (*)
FROM DEPARTMENT D, EMPLOYEE E
WHERE D.DNO=E.DNO
AND E.SALARY>600000
AND D.DNO IN (SELECT E1.DNO
FROM EMPLOYEE E1
GROUP BY E1.DNO
HAVING COUNT (*)>5)
GROUP BY D.DNO;
Viva Questions
1. What is SQL?
Structured Query Language
2. What is database?
A database is a logically coherent collection of data with some inherent meaning,
representing some aspect of real world and which is designed, built and populated with data
for a specific purpose.
3. What is DBMS?
It is a collection of programs that enables user to create and maintain a database. In other
words it is general-purpose software that provides the users with the processes of defining,
constructing and manipulating the database for various applications.
4. What is a Database system?
The database and DBMS software together is called as Database system.
5. Advantages of DBMS?
Redundancy is controlled.
Unauthorized access is restricted.
Providing multiple user interfaces.
Enforcing integrity constraints.
Providing backup and recovery.
6. Disadvantage in File Processing System?
Data redundancy & inconsistency.
Difficult in accessing data.
Data isolation.
Data integrity.
Concurrent access is not possible.
Security Problems.
7. Describe the three levels of data abstraction?
There are three levels of abstraction:
Physical level: The lowest level of abstraction describes how data are stored.
Logical level: The next higher level of abstraction, describes what data are stored in
database and what relationship among those data.
View level:The highest level of abstraction describes only part of entire database.
8. Define the "integrity rules"
There are two Integrity rules.
Entity Integrity:States that “Primary key cannot have NULL value”
Referential Integrity:States that “Foreign Key can be either a NULL value or
should be Primary Key value of other relation.
9. What is extension and intension?
Extension - It is the number of tuples present in a table at any instance. This is time
dependent.
Intension -It is a constant value that gives the name, structure of table and the constraints laid
on it.
10. What is Data Independence?
Data independence means that “the application is independent of the storage structure and
access strategy of data”. In other words, The ability to modify the schema definition in one level
should not affect the schema definition in the next higher level.
Two types of Data Independence:
Physical Data Independence: Modification in physical level should not affect the
logical level.
Logical Data Independence: Modification in logical level should affect the view
level.
NOTE: Logical Data Independence is more difficult to achieve
11. What is a view? How it is related to data independence?
A view may be thought of as a virtual table, that is, a table that does not really exist in its
own right but is instead derived from one or more underlying base table. In other words, there is
no stored file that direct represents the view instead a definition of view is stored in data
dictionary.
Growth and restructuring of base tables is not reflected in views. Thus the view can
insulate users from the effects of restructuring and growth in the database. Hence accounts for
logical data independence.
12. What is Data Model?
A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data semantics and
constraints.
13. What is E-R model?
This data model is based on real world that consists of basic objects called entities and of
relationship among these objects. Entities are described in a database by a set of attributes.
14. What is Object Oriented model?
This model is based on collection of objects. An object contains values stored in instance
variables within the object. An object also contains bodies of code that operate on the object.
These bodies of code are called methods. Objects that contain same types of values and the same
methods are grouped together into classes.
15. What is an Entity?
It is an 'object' in the real world with an independent existence.
16. What is an Entity type?
It is a collection (set) of entities that have same attributes.
17. What is an Entity set?
It is a collection of all entities of particular entity type in the database.
18. What is an Extension of entity type?
The collections of entities of a particular entity type are grouped together into an entity
set.
19. What is an attribute?
It is a particular property, which describes the entity.
20. What is a Relation Schema and a Relation?
A relation Schema denoted by R(A1, A2, …, An) is made up of the relation name
R and the list of attributes Ai that it contains. A relation is defined as a set of tuples. Let r
be the relation which contains set tuples (t1, t2, t3, ...,tn). Each tuple is an ordered list of n-
values t=(v1,v2, ..., vn).
21. What is degree of a Relation?
It is the number of attribute of its relation schema.
22. What is Relationship?
It is an association among two or more entities.
23. What is Relationship set?