Quiz Discussion

A relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys

Which one of the following is procedural language?

• 1]

  Domain relational calculus

• 2]

  Tuple relational calculus

• 3]

  Relational algebra

• 4]

  Query language

_____ operator is used for appending two strings.

• 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

In SQL the spaces at the end of the string are removed by _______ function.

• 1]

  Upper

• 2]

  String

• 3]

  Trim

• 4]

  Lower

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 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 _______ is used to refer to a row.

• 1]

  Attribute

• 2]

  Tuple

• 3]

  Field

• 4]

  Instance

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

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