Quiz Discussion

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

Department (dept name, building, budget) and Employee (employee_id, name, dept name, salary)
Here the dept_name attribute appears in both the relations. Here using common attributes in relation schema is one way of relating ___________ relations.

• 1]

  Attributes of common

• 2]

  Tuple of common

• 3]

  Tuple of distinct

• 4]

  Attributes of distinct

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

Student(ID, name, dept name, tot_cred)
In this query which attributes form the primary key?

• 1]

  Name

• 2]

  Dept

• 3]

  Tot_cred

• 4]

  ID

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

• 1]

  Union

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Product

• 4]

  Intersect

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

A relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys

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

For each attribute of a relation, there is a set of permitted values, called the ________ of that attribute.

• 1]

  Domain

• 2]

  Relation

• 3]

  Set

• 4]

  Schema