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DBMS Practice Problem SET-1

1. Define the entities and their attributes that need to be stored in the database 2. Design tables to store the entities and relationships between them 3. Populate the tables with sample test data 4. Create views, forms, reports to retrieve and display data from the tables 5. Test all database operations and make modifications or fixes as needed

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DBMS Practice Problem SET-1

1. Define the entities and their attributes that need to be stored in the database 2. Design tables to store the entities and relationships between them 3. Populate the tables with sample test data 4. Create views, forms, reports to retrieve and display data from the tables 5. Test all database operations and make modifications or fixes as needed

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1. List six major steps that you would take in setting up a database for a particular enterprise.

2. Suppose you want to build a video site similar to YouTube. Consider each of the points listed
in Section 1.2, as disadvantages of keeping data in a file-processing system. Discuss the
relevance of each of these points to the storage of actual video data, and to metadata about the
video, such as title, the user who uploaded it, tags, and which users viewed it.
3. List four significant differences between a file-processing system and a DBMS.
4. Explain the concept of physical data independence, and its importance in database systems.
5. Explain the difference between two-tier and three-tier architectures. Which is better suited for
Web applications? Why?
On the basis of given database tables shown above, solve the following
query-
Query 0. Retrieve the birth date and address of the employee(s) whose name is ‘John B. Smith’.

Q0: SELECT Bdate, Address

FROM EMPLOYEE

WHERE Fname=‘John’ AND Minit=‘B’ AND Lname=‘Smith’;

Output: fig (a)

Query 1. Retrieve the name and address of all employees who work for the ‘Research’ department.

Q1: SELECT Fname, Lname, Address

FROM EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT

WHERE Dname=‘Research’ AND Dnumber=Dno;

Output: fig (b)

Query 2. For every project located in ‘Stafford’, list the project number, the controlling department
number, and the department manager’s last name, address, and birth date.

Q2: SELECT Pnumber, Dnum, Lname, Address, Bdate

FROM PROJECT, DEPARTMENT, EMPLOYEE

WHERE Dnum=Dnumber AND Mgr_ssn=Ssn AND Plocation=‘Stafford’;

Output: fig (c)

Query 3. For each employee, retrieve the employee’s first and last name and the first and last name
of his or her immediate supervisor.

Q3: SELECT E.Fname, E.Lname, S.Fname, S.Lname

FROM EMPLOYEE AS E, EMPLOYEE AS S

WHERE E.Super_ssn=S.Ssn;

Output: fig (d)

Queries 4 - Select all EMPLOYEE Ssns in the database.

SELECT Ssn

FROM EMPLOYEE;

Output: fig (e)

Queries 5 -Select all combinations of EMPLOYEE Ssn and DEPARTMENT Dname in the database.

SELECT Ssn, Dname

FROM EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT;

Output: fig (f)


Query 6: Retrieves all the attribute values of any EMPLOYEE who works in DEPARTMENT number 5.

SELECT *

FROM EMPLOYEE

WHERE Dno=5;

Output: fig (g)

Output tables:
Query 7: Retrieve the salary of every employee.

SELECT ALL Salary

FROM EMPLOYEE;

Query 8: Retrieve all distinct salary values from employee.

SELECT DISTINCT Salary

FROM EMPLOYEE;

Query 8: Delete the record of employee whose last name is Brown.

DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE

WHERE Lname=‘Brown’;

Query 9: Delete the record of employee whose department no. is 5.

DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE

WHERE Dno=5;

Query 10: Delete the record of all employee.

DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE;

Query 11: 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;

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