COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

YEAR OF
CST Database Management CATEGORY L T P CREDIT
INTRODUCTION
204 Systems
PCC 3 1 0 4 2019

Preamble: This course provides a clear understanding of fundamental principles of Database

Management Systems (DBMS) with special focus on relational databases to the learners. The
topics covered in this course are basic concepts of DBMS, Entity Relationship (ER) model,
Relational Database principles, Relational Algebra, Structured Query Language (SQL), Physical
Data Organization, Normalization and Transaction Processing Concepts. The course also gives a
glimpse of the alternative data management model, NoSQL. This course helps the learners to
manage data efficiently by identifying suitable structures to maintain data assets of
organizations and to develop applications that utilize database technologies.

Prerequisite: Topics covered under the course Data Structures (CST 201), Exposure to a High
Level Language like C/python.

Course Outcomes: After the completion of the course the student will be able to

Summarize and exemplify fundamental nature and characteristics of database systems

CO1
(Cognitive Knowledge Level: Understand)
Model real word scenarios given as informal descriptions, using Entity Relationship
CO2
diagrams. (Cognitive Knowledge Level: Apply)

Model and design solutions for efficiently representing and querying data using
CO3
relational model (Cognitive Knowledge Level: Analyze)

Demonstrate the features of indexing and hashing in database applications (Cognitive

CO4
Knowledge Level: Apply)
Discuss and compare the aspects of Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database
CO5
systems (Cognitive Knowledge Level: Apply)

Explain various types of NoSQL databases (Cognitive Knowledge Level:

CO6
Understand)
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Mapping of course outcomes with program outcomes

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12

CO1

CO2

CO3

CO4

CO5

CO6

Abstract POs defined by National Board of Accreditation

PO# Broad PO PO# Broad PO

PO1 Engineering Knowledge PO7 Environment and Sustainability

PO2 Problem Analysis PO8 Ethics
PO3 Design/Development of solutions PO9 Individual and team work
Conduct investigations of complex
PO4 PO10 Communication
problems
PO5 Modern tool usage PO11 Project Management and Finance
PO6 The Engineer and Society PO12 Life long learning

Assessment Pattern

Continuous Assessment Tests End Semester

Bloom’s Category Examination Marks
Test1 (%) Test2 (%)
(%)
Remember 30 30 30
Understand 40 40 40
Apply 30 30 30
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Analyze
Evaluate

Create

Mark Distribution

Total Marks CIE Marks ESE Marks ESE Duration

150 50 100 3 hours

Continuous Internal Evaluation Pattern:

Attendance : 10 marks

Continuous Assessment Tests : 25 marks

Continuous Assessment Assignment : 15 marks

Internal Examination Pattern:

Each of the two internal examinations has to be conducted out of 50 marks

First Internal Examination shall be preferably conducted after completing the first half of the
syllabus and the Second Internal Examination shall be preferably conducted after completing
remaining part of the syllabus.

There will be two parts: Part A and Part B. Part A contains 5 questions (preferably, 2 questions
each from the completed modules and 1 question from the partly covered module), having 3
marks for each question adding up to 15 marks for part A. Students should answer all questions
from Part A. Part B contains 7 questions (preferably, 3 questions each from the completed
modules and 1 question from the partly covered module), each with 7 marks. Out of the 7
questions in Part B, a student should answer any 5.
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End Semester Examination Pattern:

There will be two parts; Part A and Part B. Part A contains 10 questions with 2 questions from
each module, having 3 marks for each question. Students should answer all questions. Part B
contains 2 questions from each module of which a student should answer any one. Each question
can have maximum 2 sub-divisions and carries 14 marks.

Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction & Entity Relationship (ER) Model

Concept & Overview of Database Management Systems (DBMS) - Characteristics of Database

system, Database Users, structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. Data Models and
Schema - Three Schema architecture. Database Languages, Database architectures and
classification.

ER model - Basic concepts, entity set & attributes, notations, Relationships and constraints,
cardinality, participation, notations, weak entities, relationships of degree 3.

Module 2: Relational Model

Structure of Relational Databases - Integrity Constraints, Synthesizing ER diagram to relational

schema

Introduction to Relational Algebra - select, project, cartesian product operations, join - Equi-join,
natural join. query examples, introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL), Data Definition
Language (DDL), Table definitions and operations – CREATE, DROP, ALTER, INSERT,
DELETE, UPDATE.

Module 3: SQL DML (Data Manipulation Language), Physical Data Organization

SQL DML (Data Manipulation Language) - SQL queries on single and multiple tables, Nested
queries (correlated and non-correlated), Aggregation and grouping, Views, assertions, Triggers,
SQL data types.

Physical Data Organization - Review of terms: physical and logical records, blocking factor,
pinned and unpinned organization. Heap files, Indexing, Singe level indices, numerical examples,
Multi-level-indices, numerical examples, B-Trees & B+-Trees (structure only, algorithms not
required), Extendible Hashing, Indexing on multiple keys – grid files.
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Module 4: Normalization
Different anomalies in designing a database, The idea of normalization, Functional dependency,
Armstrong’s Axioms (proofs not required), Closures and their computation, Equivalence of
Functional Dependencies (FD), Minimal Cover (proofs not required). First Normal Form (1NF),
Second Normal Form (2NF), Third Normal Form (3NF), Boyce Codd Normal Form (BCNF),
Lossless join and dependency preserving decomposition, Algorithms for checking Lossless Join
(LJ) and Dependency Preserving (DP) properties.

Module 5: Transactions, Concurrency and Recovery, Recent Topics

Transaction Processing Concepts - overview of concurrency control, Transaction Model,

Significance of concurrency Control & Recovery, Transaction States, System Log, Desirable
Properties of transactions.
Serial schedules, Concurrent and Serializable Schedules, Conflict equivalence and conflict
serializability, Recoverable and cascade-less schedules, Locking, Two-phase locking and its
variations. Log-based recovery, Deferred database modification, check-pointing.

Introduction to NoSQL Databases, Main characteristics of Key-value DB (examples from:

Redis), Document DB (examples from: MongoDB)

Main characteristics of Column - Family DB (examples from: Cassandra) and Graph DB

(examples from : ArangoDB)

Text Books

1. Elmasri R. and S. Navathe, Database Systems: Models, Languages, Design and

Application Programming, Pearson Education, 2013.

2. Sliberschatz A., H. F. Korth and S. Sudarshan, Database System Concepts, 6/e, McGraw
Hill, 2011.

Reference Books:
1. Adam Fowler, NoSQL for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 2015
2. NoSQL Data Models: Trends and Challenges (Computer Engineering: Databases and Big
Data), Wiley, 2018
3. Web Resource: https://www.w3resource.com/redis/
4. web Resource: https://www.w3schools.in/category/mongodb/
5. Web Resource: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cassandra/cassandra_introduction.htm
6. Web Resource : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/arangodb/index.htm
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Sample Course Level Assessment Questions

Course Outcome1 (CO1):

1. List out any three salient features of database systems, which distinguish it from a file
system.
2. Give one example each for logical and physical data independence.

Course Outcome 2(CO2):

1. What facts about the relationships between entities EMPLOYEE and PROJECT are
conveyed by the following ER diagram?

1. Design an ER diagram for the following scenario:

There is a set of teams, each team has an ID (unique identifier), name, main stadium, and to
which city this team belongs. Each team has many players, and each player belongs to one
team. Each player has a number (unique identifier), name, DoB, start year, and shirt
number that he uses. Teams play matches, in each match there is a host team and a guest
team.

Course Outcome 3(CO3):

1. For the SQL query, SELECT A, B FROM R WHERE B=’apple’ AND C = ‘orange’ on the
table R(A, B, C, D), where A is a key, write any three equivalent relational algebra
expressions.
2. Given the FDs P→Q, P→R, QR→S, Q→T, QR→U, PR→U, write the sequence of
Armstrong’s Axioms needed to arrive at the following FDs: (a) P → T (b) PR → S (c)
QR → SU
3. Consider a relation PLAYER (PLAYER-NO, PLAYER-NAME, PLAYER-POSN,
TEAM, TEAM-COLOR, COACH-NO, COACH-NAME, TEAM-CAPTAIN). Assume
that PLAYER-NO is the only key of the relation and that the following dependencies
hold:
TEAM→{TEAM-COLOR, COACH-NO, TEAM-CAPTAIN}
COACH-NO→COACH-NAME.
i. Is the relation in 2NF? If not, decompose to 2NF.
ii. Is the relation in 3NF? If not, decompose to 3NF.
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4. In the following tables foreign keys have the same name as primary keys except
DIRECTED-BY, which refers to the primary key ARTIST-ID. Consider only single-
director movies.
MOVIES(MOVIE-ID, MNAME, GENRE, LENGTH, DIRECTED-BY)
ARTIST(ARTIST-ID, ANAME)
ACTING(ARTIST-ID, MOVIE-ID)
Write SQL expressions for the following queries:
(a) Name(s) and director name(s) of movie(s) acted by ‘Jenny’.
(b) Names of actors who have never acted with ‘Rony’
(c) Count of movies genre-wise.
(d) Name(s) of movies with maximum length.

Course Outcome 4(CO4):

1. Consider an EMPLOYEE file with 10000 records where each record is of size 80 bytes.
The file is sorted on employee number (15 bytes long), which is the primary key.
Assuming un-spanned organization, block size of 512 bytes and block pointer size of 5
bytes. Compute the number of block accesses needed for retrieving an employee record
based on employee number if (i) No index is used (ii) Multi-level primary index is used.

Course Outcome 5(CO5):

1. Determine if the following schedule is recoverable. Is the schedule cascade-less? Justify
your answer. r1(X), r2(Z), r1(Z), r3(X), r3(Y), w1(X), c1, w3(Y), c3, r2(Y), w2(Z), w2(Y),
c2. (Note: ri(X)/wi(X) means transaction Ti issues read/write on item X; ci means
transaction Ti commits.)
2. Two-phase locking protocol ensures serializability. Justify.

Course Outcome 6(CO6):

1. List out any three salient features of NoSQL databases. Give example of a document in
MongoDB.
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Model Question paper

QPCODE
Reg No:__________________
Name:___________________
APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

FOURTH SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION, MONTH & YEAR

Course Code: CST 204
Course Name: Database Management Systems
Max.Marks:100 Duration: 3 Hours
PART A
Answer all Questions. Each question carries 3 Marks
1 List out any three salient features of a database systems.
2 When is multi-valued composite attribute used in ER modelling?
3 For the SQL query, SELECT A, B FROM R WHERE B=’apple’ AND C = ‘orange’
on the table R(A, B, C, D), where A is a key, write any two equivalent relational
algebra expressions.
4 Outline the concept of theta-join.
5 How is the purpose of where clause is different from that of having clause?
6 What is the use of a trigger?
7 When do you say that a relation is not in 1NF?
8 Given the FDs P→Q, P→R, QR→S, Q→T, QR→U, PR→U, write the sequence of
Armstrong’s Axioms needed to arrive at a. P → T b. PR → S
9 What is meant by the lost update problem?
10 What is meant by check pointing?

PART B
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Answer any one Question from each module. Each question carries 14 Marks
11 a. Design an ER diagram for the following scenario: There is a set of teams, each (14)
team has an ID (unique identifier), name, main stadium, and to which city this
team belongs. Each team has many players, and each player belongs to one
team. Each player has a number (unique identifier), name, DoB, start year, and
shirt number that he uses. Teams play matches, in each match there is a host
team and a guest team. The match takes place in the stadium of the host team.
For each match we need to keep track of the following: The date on which the
game is played The final result of the match. The players participated in the
match. For each player, how many goals he scored, whether or not he took
yellow card, and whether or not he took red card. During the match, one player
may substitute another player. We want to capture this substitution and the time
at which it took place. Each match has exactly three referees. For each referee
we have an ID (unique identifier), name, DoB, years of experience. One referee
is the main referee and the other two are assistant referee.
OR
12 a. Interpret the the following ER diagram.
(8)

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b. Distinguish between physical data independence and logical data independence (6)
with suitable examples.
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13 EMPLOYEE(ENO, NAME, ADDRESS, DOB, AGE, GENDER, SALARY, (14)

DNUM, SUPERENO)
DEPARTMENT(DNO, DNAME, DLOCATION, DPHONE, MGRENO)
PROJECT(PNO, PNAME, PLOCATION, PCOST, CDNO)

DNUM is a foreign key that identifies the department to which an employee

belongs. MGRENO is a foreign key identifying the employee who manages the
department. CDNO is a foreign key identifying the department that controls the
project. SUPERENO is a foreign key identifying the supervisor of each employee.

Write relational algebra expressions for the following queries:-

(a) Names of female employees whose salary is more than 20000.

(b) Salaries of employee from ‘Accounts’ department
(c) Names of employees along with his/her superviser’s name
(d) For each employee return name of the employee along with his department
name and the names of projects in which he/she works
(e) Names of employees working in all the departments

OR
14 a.Write SQL DDL statements for the the following (Assume suitable domain (10)
types):
i. Create the tables STUDENT(ROLLNO, NAME, CLASS, SEM,
ADVISER), FACULTY(FID, NAME, SALARY, DEPT). Assume that
ADVISER is a foreign key referring FACUTY table.
ii. Delete department with name ‘CS’ and all employees of the
department.
iii. Increment salary of every faculty by 10%.
b.Illustrate foreign key constraint with a typical example. (4)
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15 For the relation schema below, give an expression in SQL for each of the queries (14)
that follows:

employee(employee-name, street, city)

works(employee-name, company-name, salary)
company(company-name, city)
manages(employee-name, manager-name)

a) Find the names, street address, and cities of residence for all employees
who work for the Company ‘RIL Inc.' and earn more than $10,000.
b) Find the names of all employees who live in the same cities as the
companies for which they work.
c) Find the names of all employees who do not work for ‘KYS Inc.’. Assume
that all people work for exactly one company.
d) Find the names of all employees who earn more than every employee of
‘SB Corporation'. Assume that all people work for at most one company.
e) List out number of employees company-wise in the decreasing order of
number of employees.

OR
16 a. Consider an EMPLOYEE file with 10000 records where each record is of (9)
size 80 bytes. The file is sorted on employee number (15 bytes long), which
is the primary key. Assuming un-spanned organization and block size of
512 bytes compute the number of block accesses needed for selecting
records based on employee number if,
i. No index is used
ii. Single level primary index is used
iii. Multi-level primary index is used
Assume a block pointer size of 6 bytes.
b. Illustrate correlated and non-correlated nested queries with real examples. (5)

17 a. Illstrate3NF and BCNF with suitable real examples. (6)

b. Given a relation R(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) with functional dependencies (8)

A1→A2A4 and A4→A5, check if the decomposition R1(A1,A2,A3),
R2(A1,A4), R3(A2,A4,A5) is lossless.
OR
18 a. Consider the un-normalized relation R(A, B, C, D, E, F, G) with the FDs (7)
A→B , AC→G, AD→EF, EF→G, CDE→AB. Trace the normalization
process to reach 3NF relations.
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b. Illustrate Lossless Join Decomposition and Dependency Preserving (7)

Decomposition with typical examples.
19 a. Discuss the four ACID properties and their importance. (7)

b. Determine if the following schedule is conflict serializable. Is the schedule (7)

recoverable? Is the schedule cascade-less? Justify your answers.
r1(X), r2(Z), r1(Z), r3(X), r3(Y ), w1(X), c1, w3(Y), c3, r2(Y), w2(Z),
w2(Y), c2

(Note: ri(X)/wi(X) means transaction Ti issues read/write on item X; ci

means transaction Ti commits.)
OR
20 a. Discuss the main characteristics of Key-value DB and Graph DB. (7)

b. Illustrate two-phase locking with a schedule containing three transactions. (7)

Argue that 2PL ensures serializability. Also argue that 2Pl can lead to
deadlock.
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Teaching Plan

Hours
Course Name
(48)
Module 1: Introduction & ER Model 8
Concept & Overview of DBMS, Characteristics of DB system,
1.1 1
Database Users.
Structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. Data Models and
1.2 1
Schema

1.3 Three-Schema-architecture. Database Languages 1

1.4 Database architectures and classification 1

1.5 ER model: basic concepts, entity set & attributes, notations 1

1.6 Relationships and constraints – cardinality, participation, notations 1
1.7 Weak entities, relationships of degree 3 1
1.8 ER diagram – exercises 1
Module 2: Relational Model 7
2.1 Structure of relational Databases, Integrity Constraints 1
Synthesizing ER diagram to relational schema, Introduction to
2.2 1
relational algebra.
2.3 Relational algebra: select, project, Cartesian product operations 1
2.4 Relational Algebra: join - Equi-join, Natural join 1
2.5 Query examples 1
2.6 Introduction to SQL, important data types 1
DDL, Table definitions and operations – CREATE, DROP, ALTER,
2.7 1
INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE
Module 3: SQL DML, Physical Data Organization 11
3.1 SQL DML, SQL queries on single and multiple tables 1
3.2 Nested queries (correlated and non-correlated) 1
3.3 Aggregation and grouping 1
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Hours
Course Name
(48)
3.4 Views, assertions (with examples) 1
3.5 Triggers (with examples), SQL data types 1
Review of terms: physical and logical records, blocking factor,
3.6 1
pinned and unpinned organization. Heap files, Indexing
3.7 Singe level indices, numerical examples 1

3.8 Multi-level-indices, numerical examples 1

3.9 B-Trees and B+Trees (structure only, algorithms not required) 1

3.10 Extendible Hashing 1

3.11 Indexing on multiple keys – grid files 1
Module 4: Normalization 8
Different anomalies in designing a database, The idea of
4.1 1
normalization
4.2 Functional dependency, Armstrong’s Axioms (proofs not required) 1
Closures and their computation, Equivalence of FDs, minimal
4.3 1
Cover (proofs not required).
4.4 1NF, 2NF 1
4.5 3NF, BCNF 1
4.6 Lossless join and dependency preserving decomposition 1
Algorithms for checking Lossless Join and Dependency preserving
4.7 1
properties (Lecture 1)
Algorithms for checking Lossless Join and Dependency preserving
4.8 1
properties (Lecture 2)
Module 5: Transactions, Concurrency and Recovery, Recent
14
Topics
5.1 Transaction Processing Concepts: Transaction Model 1
Overview of concurrency control, Significance of concurrency
5.2 1
Control & Recovery
5.3 Transaction States, System Log 1
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Hours
Course Name
(48)
5.4 Desirable Properties of transactions, Serial schedules 1
5.5 Concurrent and Serializable Schedules 1
5.6 Conflict equivalence and conflict serializability 1
5.7 Recoverable and cascade-less schedules 1

5.8 Locking, Two-phase locking, strict 2PL. 1

5.9 Log-based recovery 1

5.10 Deferred database modification (serial schedule), example 1
Deferred database modification (concurrent schedule) example,
5.11 1
check-pointing
5.12 Introduction to NoSQL Databases 1
Main characteristics of Key-value DB (examples from: Redis),
5.13 Document DB (examples from: MongoDB) [detailed study not 1
expected]

Main characteristics of Column-Family DB (examples from:

5.14 Cassandra) and Graph DB (examples from : ArangoDB) [detailed 1
study not expected]