Quiz Discussion

The term _______ is used to refer to a row.

• 1]

  Attribute

• 2]

  Tuple

• 3]

  Field

• 4]

  Instance

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]

  $

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

_____ operator is used for appending two strings.

• 1]

  &

• 2]

  %

• 3]

  ||

• 4]

  _

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

• 1]

  Query

• 2]

  Relational

• 3]

  Structural

• 4]

  Compiler

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

The ________ clause is used to list the attributes desired in the result of a query.

• 1]

  Where

• 2]

  Select

• 3]

  From

• 4]

  Distinct

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 relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys

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