Quiz Discussion

Which of the following is an advantage of view?

• 1]

  Data security

• 2]

  Derived columns

• 3]

  Hiding of complex queries

• 4]

  All of the above

The language which has recently become the defacto standard for interfacing application programs with relational database system is

• 1]

  Oracle

• 2]

  SQL

• 3]

  DBase

• 4]

  4GL

Which of the following is a comparison operator in SQL?

• 1]

  =

• 2]

  LIKE

• 3]

  BETWEEN

• 4]

  All of the above

Which of the following is a valid SQL type?

• 1]

  CHARACTER

• 2]

  NUMERIC

• 3]

  FLOAT

• 4]

  All of the above

‘AS’ clause is used in SQL for

• 1]

  Selection operation

• 2]

  Rename operation

• 3]

  Join operation

• 4]

  Projection operation

The SQL ALTER statement can be used to

• 1]

  Change the table structure

• 2]

  Change the table data

• 3]

  Add rows to the table

• 4]

  Delete rows from the table

What is an advantage of placing computations in SQL views

• 1]

  To save users from having to write an expression

• 2]

  To ensure that the results are consistent

• 3]

  To accomplish both of the above

• 4]

  None of the above

Which of the following is correct

• 1]

  a SQL query automatically eliminates duplicates

• 2]

  SQL permits attribute names to be repeated in the same relation

• 3]

  a SQL query will not work if there are no indexes on the relations

• 4]

  None of these

A reason for using an SQL view to hide columns is

• 1]

  to simplify a result only

• 2]

  to prevent the display of sensitive data only

• 3]

  to accomplish both of the above

• 4]

  None of the above

To delete a particular column in a relation the command used is

• 1]

  UPDATE

• 2]

  DROP

• 3]

  ALTER

• 4]

  DELETE