Quiz Discussion

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

The tuples of the relations can be of ________ order.

• 1]

  Any

• 2]

  Same

• 3]

  Sorted

• 4]

  Constant

Which one of the following is procedural language?

• 1]

  Domain relational calculus

• 2]

  Tuple relational calculus

• 3]

  Relational algebra

• 4]

  Query language

The_____ operation allows the combining of two relations by merging pairs of tuples, one from each relation, into a single tuple.

• 1]

  Select

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Union

• 4]

  Intersection

For each attribute of a relation, there is a set of permitted values, called the ________ of that attribute.

• 1]

  Domain

• 2]

  Relation

• 3]

  Set

• 4]

  Schema

SELECT *
FROM instructor
ORDER BY salary ____, name ___;

To display the salary from greater to smaller and name in ascending order which of the following options should be used?

• 1]

  Ascending, Descending

• 2]

  Asc, Desc

• 3]

  Desc, Asc

• 4]

  Descending, 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

_____ operator is used for appending two strings.

• 1]

  &

• 2]

  %

• 3]

  ||

• 4]

  _

The term attribute refers to a ___________ of a table.

• 1]

  Record

• 2]

  Column

• 3]

  Tuple

• 4]

  Key

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