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DBMS SHORT QUESTION

1. Define data base management system.


2. List any five applications of DBMS.
3. What are the disadvantages of file processing System?
4. Define Data model?
5. What is functional Dependency? Explain it Briefly.
6. What is Transaction? Explain it.
7. Define Primary key, Not Null key and Unique key.
8. Explain Hashing in brief.
9. Explain advantages of database management system over file-oriented system.
10. What are the advantages of file processing system which were removed by DBMS?
11. Give example of simple, composite attributes of an entity.
12. What do you mean by referential integrity?
13. What do you mean by DML and DDL?
14. What are anomalies in 1NF?
15. What are attributes? Give examples.
16. Distinguish between functional dependency and multivalued dependency.
17. Give example of a simple composite attributes of an entity.
18. Briefly explain the terms – security and authorization.

DBMS LONG QUESTIONS.

1. Compare generalization, specialization with example.


2. Explain Primary key, Super key and foreign key.
3. What is normalization.
4. Explain specialization and generalization concepts in ER diagram with suitable example.
5. Why should normalization be performed on a table and what are it benefits. Explain 3NF.
6. What are the pitfalls of lock-based Protocol?
7. What do you mean by a key to relation? Explain the difference between super key, candidate
key and primary key.
8. Define functional dependency. What do you mean by loss-less decomposition?
9. Define normal forms. List the definition of first, second and third normal forms.
10. What are the various anomalies associated with RDBMS?
11. What is union compatibility? Explain.
12. What is referential integrity constraint? Why do we need it? Explain with the help of suitable
example.

DBMS VERY LONG QUESTIONS

1. Draw an ER diagram for a small marketing company data-base, assuming your own data
requirements.
2. Describe the classification of database language. Which type of language is SQL?
3. Explain the following: (i) DDL command
(ii) DML command
4. Explain data independence with its types.
5. Who are data administrators? What are the functions of database administrator?
6. Write SQL Query for the following table Employee (ENO, E-name, DOB, Adress(city), Salary,
Gender, D Number)
Dept (DNumber, Dname, MEmpNo, M-Start date)
i. Display the age of ‘male’ employee.
ii. Display the name of highest salary paid ‘Female’ employee.
iii. Display the name of dept. of Employee ‘XYZ’.
iv. Display all employee belong to same address(city),
v. Which employee is oldest manages in Company.
7.
a. Why the concurrency control is needed? Explain it.
b. Describe different method of Indexes?
8. What are the characteristics of SQL. Discuss the five aggregate functions with suitable
example.
9. Define E-R diagram. Draw an E-R diagram for library management system, take relevant
entities and attributes form the library management system.
10. Explain three level of architecture of DBMS.
11. What are transactions? Draw a state of diagram for transactions showing its states.
12. Explain ACID properties of a transaction with suitable example.
13. What are schedules? What is difference between conflict serializability and view
serializability?
14. What are distributed database?
15. Describe the major problem associate with concurrent processing with example.
16. Define the normal forms. Explain BCNF in detail.
17. Explain the super key, primary key and candidate key with example in detail.
18. What are the various characteristics of SQL? Discuss five aggregate functions with suitable
examples.
19. Discuss the selection, projection and join operator of relational algebra with suitable
example.
20. What do you mean by Query and sub-query? Discuss cursor in SQL also.
21. Explain the different locking techniques with example for concurrency control.
22. Explain indexed sequential, B tree and B+ tree file organization with example.
23. Explain super class, inheritance and generalization with example.
24. Write short notes on the following:
i. Strong and weak entity.
ii. Different levels of data abstraction.
iii. Database recovery techniques

25. A hospital data about the following entities:


i. PATIENTS (SSNo, LastName, FirstName, HomePhone, Sex, DateOfBirth, Age, Street,
City, State, Zip)
ii. DOCTORS (SSNo, LastName, FirstName, OfficePhone, Pager, Speiciality)
iii. BEDS ( RoomNumber, BedNumber, Type, Status, PricePerHour)
iv. ACCOUNTS (DateIn, DateOut, Amount)
Construct an E-R diagram for the hospital management; special keys, mapping cardinalities,
participation constraints (if necessary).

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