Assignment 3

1. Each offering of a course (i.e.
a section) can have many Teaching assistants; each

teaching assistant is a student. Extend the existing schema by adding or altering
tables to accommodate this requirement.
Sol: Create a table teaching_assistant(ID, course_id, sec_id, semester, year), with ID
referencing student, and (course_id,sec_id, semester,year) referencing section.
2. According to the existing schema, one student can have only one advisor.
1. Alter the schema to allow a student to have multiple advisors and make sure
that you are able to insert multiple advisors for a student.
Sol: alter table advisor drop constraint advisor_pkey;
alter table advisor add constraint advisor_pkey primary key (s_id, i_id);
2. Write SQL queries on the modified schema. You will need to insert data to
ensure the query results are not empty.
1. Find all students who have more than 3 advisors
Sol: select s_id, name
from advisor,student
where advisor.s_ID=student.ID
group by s_id, name
having count(i_ID)>3;
2. Find all students who are co-advised by Prof. Srinivas and Prof. Ashok.
Sol: select name
from student
where ID in
(select s_id from advisor,instructor
where advisor.i_id = instructor.ID
and instructor.name='Srinivasan')
and ID in
(select s_id from advisor,instructor
where advisor.i_id = instructor.ID
and instructor.name='Ashok');
3. Find students advised by instructors from different departments. etc.

Sol: select distinct student.ID, student.name
from student, advisor A1, instructor I1, advisor A2, instructor I2
where student.ID = A1.s_id
and student.ID = A2.s_id
and A1.i_id = I1.ID
and A2.i_id = I2.ID
3. Write SQL queries for the following:

1. Delete all information in the database which is more than 10 years old. Add
data as necessary to verify your query.
Sol: delete from takes where year < (year(CURRENT_DATE) - 10);
delete from teaches where year < (year(CURRENT_DATE) - 10);
delete from section where year < (year(CURRENT_DATE) - 10);
2. Delete the course CS 101. All courses which have this as a prereq should
remove this from its prereq set. Create a cascade constraint and verify.
Sol: delete from course where course_id='CS-101'
4. Write the create table SQL commands to create the following tables:
1. phone(phone_id, brand, model, price)
 This table represents a mobile phone.
 brand is some string like 'Nokia', 'Samsung' etc.
 model is a string such as 'N95', 'Galaxy3' etc.
Sol: create table phone
(phone_id varchar(20),
brand varchar(20),
model varchar(20),
price numeric(12,2),
primary key (phone_id)
);
2. network(network_id, name, type)

 This table represents mobile phone networks such as 'Airtel', 'BSNL'
etc.
Sol: create table network
(network_id varchar(20),
name varchar(20),
type varchar(20),
primary key (network_id)
);
3. deal(id, phone_id, network_id, deal_price, start_date, end_date)

 Deal is an offer for a phone when bought along with a network
 The deal price is valid only between start_date and end_date
 The phone_id and network_id attributes are foreign keys to the phone
and the network table respectively
Sol: create table deal
(id varchar(20),
phone_id varchar(20),
network_id varchar(20),
deal_price numeric(12,2),
start_date date,
end_date date,
primary key (id),
foreign key (phone_id) references phone,
foreign key (network_id) references network
);
2. Create constraints to check the following:

1. The start_date of a deal should always be <= its end_date.
Sol: alter table deal add check(start_date <= end_date)
2. The network type should be one of the following values: 'GSM', 'CDMA',
'BOTH'
Sol: alter table network add check (type in ('GSM', 'CDMA', 'BOTH'))
3. Modify the create table script and add a cascade constraint so that, when a phone is
deleted (i.e., no longer being manufactured), all deals for that phone are deleted.
Sol: alter table deal drop constraint "deal_phone_id_fkey"
alter table deal add constraint "deal_phone_id_fkey" foreign
key(phone_id) references phone on delete cascade
4. Try to insert inconsistent data and verify the constraints. Provide insert statements
that fail, along with the error message.
Sol: Check deal start_date <= end_date:
insert into phone values(1, 'Nokia', 'N95', 10000);
insert into network values(1, 'Airtel', 'GSM');
insert into deal values(12345, 1, 1, 11000, '2010-12-14', '2010-12-02');

ERROR: new row for relation "deal" violates check constraint "deal_check
Check Network type:
insert into network values(2, 'Airtel', 'GSM and CDMA');
ERROR: new row for relation "network" violates check constraint "network_type_check"

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1. Each offering of a course (i.e.

a section) can have many Teaching assistants; each

3. Find students advised by instructors from different departments. etc.

3. Write SQL queries for the following:

2. network(network_id, name, type)

3. deal(id, phone_id, network_id, deal_price, start_date, end_date)

2. Create constraints to check the following:

insert into deal values(12345, 1, 1, 11000, '2010-12-14', '2010-12-02');

insert into network values(2, 'Airtel', 'GSM and CDMA');

ERROR: new row for relation "network" violates check constraint "network_type_check"

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