Quiz Discussion

The result which the operation contains all pairs of tuples from the two relations, regardless of whether their attribute values match.

• 1]

  Join

• 2]

  Cartesian product

• 3]

  Intersection

• 4]

  Set difference

The term _______ is used to refer to a row.

• 1]

  Attribute

• 2]

  Tuple

• 3]

  Field

• 4]

  Instance

SELECT emp_name
FROM department
WHERE dept_name LIKE ’ _____ Computer Science’;

Which one of the following has to be added into the blank to select the dept_name which has Computer Science as its ending string?

• 1]

  %

• 2]

  _

• 3]

  ||

• 4]

  $

A domain is atomic if elements of the domain are considered to be ____________ units.

• 1]

  Different

• 2]

  Indivisbile

• 3]

  Constant

• 4]

  Divisible

Using which language can a user request information from a database?

• 1]

  Query

• 2]

  Relational

• 3]

  Structural

• 4]

  Compiler

SELECT name
FROM instructor
WHERE dept name = ’Physics’
ORDER BY name;

By default, the order by clause lists items in ______ order.

• 1]

  Descending

• 2]

  Any

• 3]

  Same

• 4]

  Ascending

Database __________ which is the logical design of the database, and the database _______ which is a snapshot of the data in the database at a given instant in time.

• 1]

  Instance, Schema

• 2]

  Relation, Schema

• 3]

  Relation, Domain

• 4]

  Schema, Instance

Department (dept name, building, budget) and Employee (employee_id, name, dept name, salary)
Here the dept_name attribute appears in both the relations. Here using common attributes in relation schema is one way of relating ___________ relations.

• 1]

  Attributes of common

• 2]

  Tuple of common

• 3]

  Tuple of distinct

• 4]

  Attributes of distinct

A ________ is a pictorial depiction of the schema of a database that shows the relations in the database, their attributes, and primary keys and foreign keys.

• 1]

  Schema diagram

• 2]

  Relational algebra

• 3]

  Database diagram

• 4]

  Schema flow

The _________ provides a set of operations that take one or more relations as input and return a relation as an output.

• 1]

  Schematic representation

• 2]

  Relational algebra

• 3]

  Scheme diagram

• 4]

  Relation flow