Quiz Discussion

A relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys

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

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

• 1]

  Where

• 2]

  Select

• 3]

  From

• 4]

  Distinct

The term attribute refers to a ___________ of a table.

• 1]

  Record

• 2]

  Column

• 3]

  Tuple

• 4]

  Key

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

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

• 1]

  Union

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Product

• 4]

  Intersect

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

• 1]

  Upper

• 2]

  String

• 3]

  Trim

• 4]

  Lower

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

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