Quiz Discussion

SELECT name ____ instructor name, course id
FROM instructor, teaches
WHERE instructor.ID= teaches.ID;

Which keyword must be used here to rename the field name?

• 1]

  From

• 2]

  Rename

• 3]

  As

• 4]

  Join

A ________ in a table represents a relationship among a set of values.

• 1]

  Column

• 2]

  Key

• 3]

  Row

• 4]

  Entry

SELECT name
FROM instructor
WHERE salary <= 100000 AND salary >= 90000;

This query can be replaced by which of the following ?

• 1]

  SELECT name
  FROM instructor
  WHERE salary BETWEEN 90000 AND 100000;

   

• 2]

  SELECT name
  FROM employee
  WHERE salary <= 90000 AND salary>=100000;

   

• 3]

  SELECT name
  FROM employee
  WHERE salary BETWEEN 90000 AND 100000;

   

• 4]

  SELECT name
  FROM instructor
  WHERE salary BETWEEN 100000 AND 90000;

   

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

The most commonly used operation in relational algebra for projecting a set of tuple from a relation is

• 1]

  Join

• 2]

  Projection

• 3]

  Select

• 4]

  Union

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

SELECT instructor.*
FROM instructor, teaches
WHERE instructor.ID= teaches.ID;

This query does which of the following operation?

• 1]

  All attributes of instructor and teaches are selected

• 2]

  All attributes of instructor are selected on the given condition

• 3]

  All attributes of teaches are selected on given condition

• 4]

  Only the some attributes from instructed and teaches are selected

The term attribute refers to a ___________ of a table.

• 1]

  Record

• 2]

  Column

• 3]

  Tuple

• 4]

  Key

The ________ clause is used to list the attributes desired in the result of a query.

• 1]

  Where

• 2]

  Select

• 3]

  From

• 4]

  Distinct

The _______operation performs a set union of two “similarly structured” tables

• 1]

  Union

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Product

• 4]

  Intersect