Quiz Discussion

A relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys

SELECT * FROM employee WHERE dept_name="Comp Sci";

In the SQL given above there is an error . Identify the error.

• 1]

  Dept_name

• 2]

  Employee

• 3]

  “Comp Sci”

• 4]

  From

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

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

• 1]

  Query

• 2]

  Relational

• 3]

  Structural

• 4]

  Compiler

The _______ operator takes the results of two queries and returns only rows that appear in both result sets.

• 1]

  Union

• 2]

  Intersect

• 3]

  Difference

• 4]

  Projection

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

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

• 1]

  Union

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Product

• 4]

  Intersect

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

• 1]

  Upper

• 2]

  String

• 3]

  Trim

• 4]

  Lower

’_____’ 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

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