Quiz Discussion

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

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

• 1]

  Column

• 2]

  Key

• 3]

  Row

• 4]

  Entry

Which one of the following is procedural language?

• 1]

  Domain relational calculus

• 2]

  Tuple relational calculus

• 3]

  Relational algebra

• 4]

  Query language

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

’_____’ matches any string of ______ three characters. ’_____%’ matches any string of at ______ three characters.

• 1]

  Atleast, Exactly

• 2]

  Exactly, Atleast

• 3]

  Atleast, All

• 4]

  All, Exactly

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

Student(ID, name, dept name, tot_cred)
In this query which attributes form the primary key?

• 1]

  Name

• 2]

  Dept

• 3]

  Tot_cred

• 4]

  ID

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

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]

  $

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