BCS403 2023-24 DBMSmanual
BCS403 2023-24 DBMSmanual
K. L. E. SOCIETY’S
K. L. E. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
Gokul, Hubballi-580 030
Laboratory Manual
IV SEMESTER
(BCS403)
2023-24
HOD
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Vision
Prepare computer professionals embodied with competence and values to meet the challenges in
the field of Information Technology.
Mission
M-1: Providing hands-on experience with state-of-the-art hardware and software infrastructure,
enhancing competency of committed faculty to meet the requirements of industry and research
institutions
M-2: Inculcating theoretical and practical foundations and design and development skills
necessary for lifelong learning.
M-3: Organizing value addition courses and continuous industry-institute interactions for bridging
the gap between academia and industry
M-4: Imbibing human values and ethics to make them socially responsible professionals.
Vision
PEO 1 : Ability to apply the knowledge of Basic Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science and
Engineering to solve real world problems using digital computing systems.
PEO 2 : Graduates of the program will be able to choose professional career in software industry,
research, entrepreneurship, academia and engineering and administrative services.
PEO 3 : Graduates of the program will be able to model, design, implement and evaluate computing
systems to meet desired needs and specifications.
PEO 4 : Graduates of the program will be able to demonstrate interpersonal skills and lifelong
learning attitude in their profession.
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PEO 5 : Graduates of the program will be able to address and solve ethically the issues related to
profession, society and environment.
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effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive
clear instructions.
11. Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the
engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and
leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
12. Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in
independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
PSO1: Adopt and incorporate latest trends and technologies, which emerge over the period.
Course Outcomes-CO
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Experiments
2. Create a table called Employee that contain attributes EMPNO, ENAME, JOB, MGR, SAL
& execute the following.
1. Add a column commission with domain to the Employee table.
2. Insert any five records into the table.
3. Update the column details of job.
4. Rename the column of Employ table using alter command.
5. Delete the employee whose Empno is 105.
3. Queries using aggregate functions (COUNT, AVG, MIN, MAX, SUM), Group by,
Orderby.
Employee (E_id, E_name, Age, Salary)
1. Create Employee table containing all Records E_id, E_name, Age, Salary.
2. Count number of employee names from employeetable.
3. Find the Maximum age from employee table.
4. Find the Minimum age from employeetable.
5. Find salaries of employee in Ascending Order.
6. Find grouped salaries of employees.
4. Create a row level trigger for the customers table that would fire for INSERT or UPDATE
or DELETE operations performed on the CUSTOMERS table. This trigger will display the
salary difference between the old & new Salary.
CUSTOMERS (ID, NAME, AGE, ADDRESS, SALARY)
5. Create cursor for Employee table & extract the values from the table. Declare the variables,
Open the cursor & extract the values from the cursor. Close the cursor.
Employee (E_id, E_name, Age, Salary)
6. Write a PL/SQL block of code using parameterized Cursor, that will merge the data
available in the newly created table N_RollCall with the data available in the table
N_RollCall. If the data in the first table already exist in the second table then that data should
be skipped.
7. Install an Open Source NoSQL Data base MangoDB & perform basic CRUD (Create,
Read, Update & Delete) operations. Execute MangoDB basic Queries using CRUD
operations.
8. Activity Based Learning (Suggested Activities in Class)/ Practical Based learning Mini
Project: Project Based Learning
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For any problem selected, write the ER Diagram, apply ER-mapping rules, normalize
the relations, and follow the application development process.
Make sure that the application should have five or more tables, at least one trigger and
one stored procedure, using suitable frontend tool.
Indicative areas include; health care, education, industry, transport, supply chain, etc.
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INTRODUCTION TO SQL
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a database computer language designed for the
retrieval and management of data in relational database management systems (RDBMS),
database schema creation and modification, and database object access control management.
SQL is a programming language for querying and modifying data and managing
databases. SQL was standardized first by the ANSI and (later) by the ISO. Most database
management systems implement a majority of one of these standards and add their
proprietary extensions. SQL allows the retrieval, insertion, updating, and deletion of data.
A database management system also includes management and administrative
functions. Most -- if not all -- implementations also include a Command-line Interface
(SQL/CLI) that allows for the entry and execution of the language commands, as opposed to
only providing an API intended for access from a GUI.
The first version of SQL was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and
Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s. This version, initially called SEQUEL, was designed
to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original relational database product, System
R. IBM patented their version of SQL in 1985, while the SQL language was not formally
standardized until 1986, by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as SQL-86.
Subsequent versions of the SQL standard have been released by ANSI and as International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards.
Originally designed as a declarative query and data manipulation language, variations
of SQL have been created by SQL database management system (DBMS) vendors that add
procedural constructs, control-of-flow statements, user-defined data types, and various other
language extensions. With the release of the SQL:1999 standard, many such extensions were
formally adopted as part of the SQL language via the SQL Persistent Stored Modules
(SQL/PSM) portion of the standard.
Common criticisms of SQL include a perceived lack of cross-platform portability
between vendors, inappropriate handling of missing data (see Null (SQL)), and unnecessarily
complex and occasionally ambiguous language grammar and semantics.
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FEATURES OF SQL
SQL is both an easy-to-understand language and a comprehensive tool for managing
data. Some of the major features of SQL are
· Vendor independence
· Portability across computer systems
· SQL standards
· IBM endorsement and commitment (DB2)
· Microsoft commitment (SQL Server , ODBC, and ADO)
· Relational foundation
· High-level, English-like structure
· Interactive, ad hoc queries
· Programmatic database access
· Multiple views of data
· Complete database language
· Dynamic data definition
· Client/server architecture
· Enterprise application support
· Extensibility and object technology
· Internet database access
· Java integration (JDBC)
· Industry infrastructure
SQL COMMANDS
SQL Consisting of DDL,DML,DCL,TCL COMMANDS.
DDL
Data Definition Language (DDL) statements are used to define the database structure or
schema.
DDL Commands: Create , Alter ,Drop , Rename, Truncate
CREATE - to create objects in the database
ALTER - alters the structure of the database
DROP - delete objects from the database
TRUNCATE - remove all records from a table, including all spaces
allocated for the records are removed
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DML
Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements are used for managing data within schema
objects
DML Commands: Insert ,Update, Delete, Select
INSERT - insert data into a table
UPDATE - updates existing data within a table
DELETE - deletes all records from a table, the space for the records remain
SELECT - retrieve data from the a database
DCL
Data Control Language (DCL) statements is used to create roles, permissions, and referential
integrity as well it is used to control access to database by securing it.
DCL Commands: Grant, Revoke
GRANT - gives user's access privileges to database
REVOKE - withdraw access privileges given with the GRANT command
TCL
Transaction Control (TCL) statements are used to manage the changes made by DML
statements. It allows statements to be grouped together into logical transactions.
TCL Commands: Commit, Rollback, Save point
ALTER A TABLE
To add a column in a table
ALTER TABLE table_name UPDATE
ADD column_name datatype; UPDATE table_name
To delete a column in a table SET column1=value, column2=value2,...
ALTER TABLE table_name WHERE some_column=some_value;
DROP COLUMN column_name;
DELETE
DROP TABLE DELETE FROM table_name
DROP TABLE table_name; WHERE some_column=some_value;
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List of Experiments
Experiments
User created.
Grant succeeded.
Grant succeeded.
SQL> create table employee(empno int, ename varchar(10), job varchar(10), manager_no
int, salary int
, comm int);
Table created.
1 row created.
SQL> create table emp( empno int primary key, ename varchar(10) not null, job varchar(10),
manager_n
o int, sal int, comm int);
Table created.
1 row created.
SQL> /
insert into emp values (1,'abc','ss',1,25000,3)
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00001: unique constraint (JADE.SYS_C005461) violated
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1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for empno: 4
Enter value for enma: rr
Enter value for job: yy
Enter value for ma_no: 3
Enter value for sal: 10000
Enter value for comm:
old 1: insert into emp values ('&empno','&enma','&job','&ma_no','&sal','&comm')
new 1: insert into emp values ('4','rr','yy','3','10000','')
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for empno:
Enter value for enma:
Enter value for job: tr
Enter value for ma_no: 2
Enter value for sal: 1200
Enter value for comm:
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SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
2. Create a table called Employee that contain attributes EMPNO, ENAME, JOB, MGR, SAL
& execute the following.
1. Add a column commission with domain to the Employee table.
2. Insert any five records into the table.
3. Update the column details of job.
4. Rename the column of Employ table using alter command.
5. Delete the employee whose Empno is 105.
SQL> create table employee(empid int primary key, ename varchar(10) not null, mgr_id int,
2 salary int, job varchar(8));
Table created.
Table altered.
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for empid: 123
Enter value for ename: veer
Enter value for mgrid: 123
Enter value for salary: 30000
Enter value for job: manager
Enter value for comm: 50
old 1: insert into employee values ('&empid','&ename','&mgrid','&salary','&job','&comm')
new 1: insert into employee values ('123','veer','123','30000','manager','50')
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for empid: 1002
Enter value for ename: raj
Enter value for mgrid: 123
Enter value for salary: 2000
Enter value for job: turner
Enter value for comm: 3
old 1: insert into employee values ('&empid','&ename','&mgrid','&salary','&job','&comm')
new 1: insert into employee values ('1002','raj','123','2000','turner','3')
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for empid: 1003
Enter value for ename: vijay
Enter value for mgrid: 123
Enter value for salary: 3200
Enter value for job: operator
Enter value for comm: 5
old 1: insert into employee values ('&empid','&ename','&mgrid','&salary','&job','&comm')
new 1: insert into employee values ('1003','vijay','123','3200','operator','5')
1 row created.
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SQL> /
Enter value for empid: 1001
Enter value for ename: f
Enter value for mgrid: 123
Enter value for salary: 2300
Enter value for job: ee
Enter value for comm: 2
old 1: insert into employee values ('&empid','&ename','&mgrid','&salary','&job','&comm')
new 1: insert into employee values ('1001','f','123','2300','ee','2')
insert into employee values ('1001','f','123','2300','ee','2')
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00001: unique constraint (JADE.SYS_C005467) violated
SQL> /
Enter value for empid: 1004
Enter value for ename: seshu
Enter value for mgrid: 123
Enter value for salary: 2100
Enter value for job: analyst
Enter value for comm: 4
old 1: insert into employee values ('&empid','&ename','&mgrid','&salary','&job','&comm')
new 1: insert into employee values ('1004','seshu','123','2100','analyst','4')
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for empid: 1005
Enter value for ename: john
Enter value for mgrid: 123
Enter value for salary: 2100
Enter value for job: ttainer
Enter value for comm: 2
old 1: insert into employee values ('&empid','&ename','&mgrid','&salary','&job','&comm')
new 1: insert into employee values ('1005','john','123','2100','ttainer','2')
1 row created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
6 rows selected.
1 row updated.
6 rows selected.
Table altered.
COMM NUMBER(38)
1 row created.
7 rows selected.
1 row deleted.
6 rows selected.
3. Queries using aggregate functions (COUNT, AVG, MIN, MAX, SUM), Group by, Order
by.
Employee (E_id, E_name, Age, Salary)
1. Create Employee table containing all Records E_id, E_name, Age, Salary.
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6 rows selected.
Table altered.
6 rows selected.
1 row updated.
1 row updated.
1 row updated.
1 row updated.
1 row updated.
1 row updated.
6 rows selected.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
6 rows selected.
COUNT(EMPID)
------------
6
COUNT(ENAME)
------------
6
MAX(AGE)
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42
MIN(AGE)
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22
6 rows selected.
6 rows selected.
6 rows selected.
4. Create a row level trigger for the customers table that would fire for INSERT or UPDATE
or DELETE operations performed on the CUSTOMERS table. This trigger will display the
salary difference between the old & new Salary.
CUSTOMERS (ID, NAME, AGE, ADDRESS, SALARY)
SQL> create table customer (id int primary key, name varchar(10) not null, Age int, address
varchar(
10), salary int);
Table created.
Trigger created.
2
SQL> insert into customer values ('&id','&name','&age','&address','&salary');
Enter value for id: 1001
Enter value for name: jay
Enter value for age: 29
Enter value for address: hubli
Enter value for salary: 21000
old 1: insert into customer values ('&id','&name','&age','&address','&salary')
new 1: insert into customer values ('1001','jay','29','hubli','21000')
Old salary:
New salary: 21000
Salary difference:
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for id: 1002
Enter value for name: vijay
Enter value for age: 32
Enter value for address: gadag
Enter value for salary: 35000
old 1: insert into customer values ('&id','&name','&age','&address','&salary')
new 1: insert into customer values ('1002','vijay','32','gadag','35000')
Old salary:
New salary: 35000
Salary difference:
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for id: 1003
Enter value for name: ram
Enter value for age: 29
Enter value for address: dharwad
Enter value for salary: 32000
old 1: insert into customer values ('&id','&name','&age','&address','&salary')
new 1: insert into customer values ('1003','ram','29','dharwad','32000')
Old salary:
New salary: 32000
Salary difference:
1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for id: 1004
Enter value for name: ajay
Enter value for age: 28
Enter value for address: delhi
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1 row created.
SQL> /
Enter value for id: 1005
Enter value for name: delhi
Enter value for age: 27
Enter value for address: delhi
Enter value for salary: 27000
old 1: insert into customer values ('&id','&name','&age','&address','&salary')
new 1: insert into customer values ('1005','delhi','27','delhi','27000')
Old salary:
New salary: 27000
Salary difference:
1 row created.
1 row updated.
1 row updated.
1 row updated.
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1 row updated.
5. Create cursor for Employee table & extract the values from the table. Declare the variables,
Open the cursor & extract the values from the cursor. Close the cursor.
Employee (E_id, E_name, Age, Salary)
SQL> DECLARE
2 var_record employee%ROWTYPE;
3 CURSOR cur_test (max_sal NUMBER) IS
4 SELECT * FROM employee WHERE salary < max_sal;
5 BEGIN
6 OPEN cur_test(5800);
7 LOOP
8 FETCH cur_test INTO var_record;
9 EXIT WHEN cur_test%NOTFOUND;
10 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('EMP_ID: ' || var_record.empid || chr(9) ||
11 'Name: ' || var_record.ename || chr(9) || ' salary: ' || var_record.salary
12 || chr(9) || 'age: ' || var_record.age);
13 END LOOP;
14 CLOSE cur_test;
15 END;
16 /
EMP_ID: 1001 Name: jay salary: 1200 age: 31
EMP_ID: 1002 Name: raj salary: 2000 age: 28
EMP_ID: 1003 Name: vijay salary: 3200 age: 31
EMP_ID: 1004 Name: seshu salary: 2100 age: 28
EMP_ID: 1005 Name: john salary: 2100 age: 22
6. Write a PL/SQL block of code using parameterized Cursor, that will merge the data
available in the newly created table N_RollCall with the data available in the table
N_RollCall. If the data in the first table already exist in the second table then that data should
be skipped.
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Table created.
Table created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> declare cursor cu1 is select Roll,Name from Student; cursor cu2 is select Roll from
CompDep;
rno int; nm varchar(20); rno2 int; begin open cu1; open cu2; loop fetch cu1 into rno,nm;
fetch
cu2 into rno2; exit when cu1%found = false; if rno2 <> rno then insert into CompDep
values(rno,nm);
end if; end loop; close cu1; close cu2; end;
/
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ROLL NAME
---------- --------------------
2b
5e
6f
1a
2b
3c
4d
7 rows selected.
ROLL NAME
---------- --------------------
1a
2b
3c
4d
7. Install an Open Source NoSQL Data base MangoDB & perform basic CRUD (Create,
Read, Update & Delete) operations. Execute MangoDB basic Queries using CRUD
operations.
8. Activity Based Learning (Suggested Activities in Class)/ Practical Based learning Mini
Project:
• Project Based Learning
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VIVA VOCE
1. What is database?
2. What is DBMS?
DBMS is a software that is used to perform operations on a database. These operations may
include reading, writing, modifying of data and even provide control over accessing of data
when multiple users were accessing the data at the same time or even at different times.
3. Advantages of DBMS?
Redundancy is controlled.
Unauthorized access is restricted.
Providing multiple user interfaces.
Enforcing integrity constraints.
Providing backup and recovery.
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.
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.
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Data independence means, the ability to modify the schema definition in one level should
not affect the schema definition in the next higher level.
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
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 tables. 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.
A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships, data semantics and
constraints is called Data 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.
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.
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An entity set may not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key, and its primary key
compromises of its partial key and primary key of its parent entity, then it is said to be Weak
Entity set.
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).
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Relationship type defines a set of associations or a relationship set among a given set of
entity types.
It translates DML statements in a query language into low-level instruction that the query
evaluation engine can understand.
The Low level or Procedural DML can specify and retrieve each record from a set of records.
This retrieve of a record is said to be Record-at-a-time.
It is procedural query language. It consists of a set of operations that take one or two
relations as input and produce a new relation.
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Minimizing redundancy
Minimizing insertion, deletion and update anomalies.
A Functional dependency is denoted by X Y between two sets of attributes X and Y that are
subsets of R specifies a constraint on the possible tuple that can form a relation state r of R.
The constraint is for any two tuples t1 and t2 in r if t1[X] = t2[X] then they have t1[Y] = t2[Y].
This means the value of X component of a tuple uniquely determines the value of
component Y.
Every dependency in F has a single attribute for its right hand side.
We cannot replace any dependency X A in F with a dependency Y A where Y is a
proper subset of X and still have a set of dependency that is equivalent to F.
We cannot remove any dependency from F and still have set of dependency that is
equivalent to F.
It guarantees that the spurious tuples generation does not occur with respect to relation
schemas after decomposition.
The domain of attribute must include only atomic (simple, indivisible) values.
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A relation schema R is in 3NF if it is in 2NF and for every FD X A either of the following is
true
X is a Super-key of R.
A is a prime attribute of R.
In other words, if every non prime attribute is non-transitively dependent on primary key.
A relation schema R is in BCNF if it is in 3NF and satisfies an additional constraint that for
every FD X A, X must be a candidate key.
A relation schema R is said to be in 4NF if for every multivalued dependency X Y that holds
over R, one of following is true
? X is a super key.
A Relation schema R is said to be 5NF if for every join dependency {R1, R2... Rn} that holds
R, one the following is true
? Ri = R for some i.
? The join dependency is implied by the set of FD, over R in which the left side is key of R.
A relation is said to be in DKNF if all constraints and dependencies that should hold on the
constraint can be enforced by simply enforcing the domain constraint and key constraint on
the relation.
39. What is indexing and what are the different kinds of indexing?
Indexing is a technique for determining how quickly specific data can be found.
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Types:
The phase that identifies an efficient execution plan for evaluating a query that has the least
estimated cost is referred to as query optimization.
Atomicity: Either all actions are carried out or none are. Users should not have to worry
about the effect of incomplete transactions. DBMS ensures this by undoing the actions of
incomplete transactions.
A Checkpoint is like a snapshot of the DBMS state. By taking checkpoints, the DBMS can
reduce the amount of work to be done during restart in the event of subsequent crashes.
It is a database in which there are no programs or user access languages. It has no cross-file
capabilities but is user-friendly and provides user-interface management.
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Network schema uses a graph data structure to organize records while a hierarchical schema
uses a tree data structure.
A query with respect to DBMS relates to user commands that are used to interact with a data
base.
Sub queries, or nested queries, are used to bring back a set of rows to be used by the parent
query. Depending on how the sub query is written, it can be executed once for the parent
query or it can be executed once for each row returned by the parent query. If the sub query
is executed for each row of the parent, this is called a correlated sub query.
E.g. Select * From CUST Where '10/03/1990' IN (Select ODATE from ORDER Where
CUST.CNUM = ORDER.CNUM)
49. What are the primitive operations common to all record management systems?
50. Name the buffer in which all the commands that are typed in are stored
? Edit? Buffer
52. Are the resulting relations of PRODUCT and JOIN operation the same?
No.
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PRODUCT: Concatenation of every row in one relation with every row in another.
JOIN: Concatenation of rows from one relation and related rows from another.
Two important pieces of RDBMS architecture are the kernel, which is the software, and the
data dictionary, which consists of the system-level data structures used by the kernel to
manage the database
54. Which part of the RDBMS takes care of the data dictionary? How?
Data dictionary is a set of tables and database objects that is stored in a special area of the
database and maintained exclusively by the kernel.
The information in the data dictionary validates the existence of the objects, provides access
to them, and maps the actual physical storage location.
57. Define SQL and state the differences between SQL and other conventional
programming Languages
SQL is a nonprocedural language that is designed specifically for data access operations on
normalized relational database structures. The primary difference between SQL and other
conventional programming languages is that SQL statements specify what data operations
should be performed rather than how to perform them.
The Oracle system processes, also known as Oracle background processes, provide functions
for the user processes.
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Oracle database-wide system memory is known as the SGA, the SYSTEM GLOBAL AREA
or SHARED GLOBAL AREA.
The combination of the SGA and the Oracle background processes is known as an Oracle
instance
59. What are the four Oracle system processes that must always be up and running for the
database to be useable
DBWR (Database Writer), LGWR (Log Writer), SMON (System Monitor), and PMON
(Process Monitor).
60. What are database files, control files and log files? How many of these files should a
database have at least? Why?
Database Files: The database files hold the actual data and are typically the largest in size.
The database files are fixed in size and never grow bigger than the size at which they were
created. Depending on their sizes, the tables (and other objects) for all the user accounts can
go in one database file? But that's not an ideal situation because it does not make the
database structure very flexible for controlling access to storage for different users, putting
the database on different disk drives, or backing up and restoring just part of the database.
Control Files: The control file records the name of the database, the date and time it was
created, the location of the database and redoes logs, and the synchronization information to
ensure that all three sets of files are always in step. Every time you add a new database or
redo log file to the database, the information is recorded in the control files.
Redo Logs: The redo logs record all changes to the user objects or system objects. If any type
of failure occurs, the changes recorded in the redo logs can be used to bring the database to a
consistent state without losing any committed transactions. The redo log files are fixed in
size and never grow dynamically from the size at which they were created.
The ROWID is a unique database-wide physical address for every row on every table. Once
assigned it never changes until the row is deleted or the table is dropped. The ROWID is
used internally in indexes as a quick means of retrieving rows with a particular key value.
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A database trigger is a PL/SQL block that can be defined to perform certain actions
automatically when a condition is encountered. For example: a trigger can be defined to
deny any database insertions into a database on a specified system date.
63. Name two utilities that Oracle provides, which are use for backup and recovery.
Along with the RDBMS software, Oracle provides two utilities that you can use to back up
and restore the database. These utilities are Export and Import.
The Export utility dumps the definitions and data for the specified part of the database to an
operating system binary file. The Import utility reads the file produced by an export,
recreates the definitions of objects, and inserts the data
64. What are stored-procedures? And what are the advantages of using them?
Stored procedures are database objects that perform a user defined operation by executing
the SQL commands and returning the result to the client Stored procedures are used to
reduce network traffic.
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