Quiz Discussion

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]

  $

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

A relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys

Course(course_id,sec_id,semester)

Here the course_id,sec_id and semester are __________ and course is a _________

• 1]

  Relations, Attribute

• 2]

  Attributes, Relation

• 3]

  Tuple, Relation

• 4]

  Tuple, Attributes

The tuples of the relations can be of ________ order.

• 1]

  Any

• 2]

  Same

• 3]

  Sorted

• 4]

  Constant

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

• 1]

  Upper

• 2]

  String

• 3]

  Trim

• 4]

  Lower

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

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

• 1]

  Column

• 2]

  Key

• 3]

  Row

• 4]

  Entry

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