Quiz Discussion

Which one of the following is procedural language?

• 1]

  Domain relational calculus

• 2]

  Tuple relational calculus

• 3]

  Relational algebra

• 4]

  Query language

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

A domain is atomic if elements of the domain are considered to be ____________ units.

• 1]

  Different

• 2]

  Indivisbile

• 3]

  Constant

• 4]

  Divisible

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 performs a set union of two “similarly structured” tables

• 1]

  Union

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Product

• 4]

  Intersect

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

• 1]

  Query

• 2]

  Relational

• 3]

  Structural

• 4]

  Compiler

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

The term attribute refers to a ___________ of a table.

• 1]

  Record

• 2]

  Column

• 3]

  Tuple

• 4]

  Key

The term _______ is used to refer to a row.

• 1]

  Attribute

• 2]

  Tuple

• 3]

  Field

• 4]

  Instance

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