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Lab 01 Exercises

This document describes a lab exercise involving creating a student-course database using SQL statements in phpMyAdmin. It includes: 1) DDL statements to create tables for students, courses, prerequisites, sections, and grades. 2) DML statements to populate the tables with sample data. 3) Questions asking to view the database tables, retrieve sections taught by a specific instructor, retrieve grades for a student, and view prerequisites for a course.

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Lab 01 Exercises

This document describes a lab exercise involving creating a student-course database using SQL statements in phpMyAdmin. It includes: 1) DDL statements to create tables for students, courses, prerequisites, sections, and grades. 2) DML statements to populate the tables with sample data. 3) Questions asking to view the database tables, retrieve sections taught by a specific instructor, retrieve grades for a student, and view prerequisites for a course.

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COMPSCI 751 Lab 01 Exercises 1

Computer COMPSCI 751 S1 C – Lab 01


Science

10 marks in total = 1% of the final grade

1. What are the advantages of using a database solution as compared to the traditional
file storage mechanism? What is the role of DBMS to a database system?
[2 marks]

2. Using the phpMyAdmin tool (https://sit.auckland.ac.nz/phpmyadmin/), enter the


following DDL statements under the ‘SQL’ tab to create the student-course database
schema.

CREATE TABLE STUDENT (


Name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
Student_number INTEGER NOT NULL,
Class CHAR NOT NULL,
Major CHAR(4),
PRIMARY KEY (Student_number) );

CREATE TABLE COURSE (


Course_name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
Course_number CHAR(8) NOT NULL,
Credit_hours INTEGER,
Department CHAR(4),
PRIMARY KEY (Course_number),
UNIQUE (Course_name) );

CREATE TABLE PREREQUISITE (


Course_number CHAR(8) NOT NULL,
Prerequisite_number CHAR(8) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (Course_number, Prerequisite_number),
FOREIGN KEY (Course_number) REFERENCES COURSE (Course_number),
FOREIGN KEY (Prerequisite_number) REFERENCES COURSE (Course_number) );

CREATE TABLE SECTION (


Section_identifier INTEGER NOT NULL,
Course_number CHAR(8) NOT NULL,
Semester VARCHAR(6) NOT NULL,
Year CHAR(4) NOT NULL,
Instructor VARCHAR(15),
PRIMARY KEY (Section_identifier),
FOREIGN KEY (Course_number) REFERENCES COURSE (Course_number) );
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CREATE TABLE GRADE_REPORT (


Student_number INTEGER NOT NULL,
Section_identifier INTEGER NOT NULL,
Grade CHAR,
PRIMARY KEY (Student_number, Section_identifier),
FOREIGN KEY (Student_number) REFERENCES STUDENT (Student_number),
FOREIGN KEY (Section_identifier) REFERENCES SECTION (Section_identifier) );
COMPSCI 751 Lab 01 Exercises 3

Populate the above database with the following DML statements under the ‘SQL’ tab.

INSERT INTO `STUDENT` (`Name`, `Student_number`, `Class`, `Major`) VALUES


('Smith', 17, '1', 'CS'),
('Brown', 8, '2', 'CS');

INSERT INTO `COURSE` (`Course_name`, `Course_number`, `Credit_hours`,


`Department`) VALUES
('Intro to Computer Science', 'CS1310', 4, 'CS'),
('Data Structures', 'CS3320', 4, 'CS'),
('Discrete Mathematics', 'MATH2410', 3, 'MATH'),
('Database', 'CS3380', 3, 'CS');

INSERT INTO `SECTION` (`Section_identifier`, `Course_number`, `Semester`, `Year`,


`Instructor`) VALUES
(85, 'MATH2410', 'Fall', '07', 'King'),
(92, 'CS1310', 'Fall', '07', 'Anderson'),
(102, 'CS3320', 'Spring', '08', 'Knuth'),
(112, 'MATH2410', 'Fall', '08', 'Chang'),
(119, 'CS1310', 'Fall', '08', 'Anderson'),
(135, 'CS3380', 'Fall', '08', 'Stone');

INSERT INTO `GRADE_REPORT` (`Student_number`, `Section_identifier`, `Grade`)


VALUES
(17, 112, 'B'),
(17, 119, 'C'),
(8, 85, 'A'),
(8, 92, 'A'),
(8, 102, 'B'),
(8, 135, 'A');

INSERT INTO `PREREQUISITE` (`Course_number`, `Prerequisite_number`) VALUES


('CS3380', 'CS3320'),
('CS3380', 'MATH2410'),
('CS3320', 'CS1310');

You can download the “Lab01_Q2_Database.sql” file and execute the table creation
and data population statements to obtain the above database state.

(a) Show content of the database state (i.e., the screenshot of each table displayed by
the PhpMyAdmin tool).
[2 marks]
The syntax of a basic database DML query statement is as follows.
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For example, the query statement to retrieve all the course information offered by the
Computer Science department is as follows.

SELECT Course_name, Course_number, Credit_hours


FROM COURSE
WHERE Department='CS'

The query output as the screenshot by the PhpMyAdmin tool is:

Based on the query syntax and the example, answer the following questions and show
the query output as screenshots similar to the above.

(b) Retrieve all the section information taught by the instructor 'Anderson'.
[2 marks]

(c) Retrieve all the grade and section information of the student with the ID number '8'.

[2 marks]

(d) Retrieve the prerequisite course information of the course ‘CS3380’. Please display
all the course information, such as the course number, name, credit and offering
department.

[2 marks]

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