Quiz Discussion

A relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys

The term _______ is used to refer to a row.

• 1]

  Attribute

• 2]

  Tuple

• 3]

  Field

• 4]

  Instance

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

• 1]

  Union

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Product

• 4]

  Intersect

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

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

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]

  $

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 name
FROM instructor
WHERE salary <= 100000 AND salary >= 90000;

This query can be replaced by which of the following ?

• 1]

  SELECT name
  FROM instructor
  WHERE salary BETWEEN 90000 AND 100000;

   

• 2]

  SELECT name
  FROM employee
  WHERE salary <= 90000 AND salary>=100000;

   

• 3]

  SELECT name
  FROM employee
  WHERE salary BETWEEN 90000 AND 100000;

   

• 4]

  SELECT name
  FROM instructor
  WHERE salary BETWEEN 100000 AND 90000;

   

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