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Employee (Name, Salary, Deptno) and Department (Deptno, Deptname, Address)

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions related to relational databases and SQL. The questions cover topics such as relational algebra operations, functional dependencies, joins, null values, database normalization, and subqueries.

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1.

Given the relations


employee (name, salary, deptno) and
department (deptno, deptname, address)
Which of the following queries cannot be expressed using the basic relational algebra
operations (U, -, x, π, σ, p)? (GATE CS 2000)
(a) Department address of every employee
(b) Employees whose name is the same as their department name
(c) The sum of all employees’ salaries
(d) All employees of a given department

2. Given the following relation instance.


x y z
1 4 2
1 5 3
1 6 3
3 2 2
Which of the following functional dependencies are satisfied by the instance? (GATE CS
2000)
(a) XY -> Z and Z -> Y
(b) YZ -> X and Y -> Z
(c) YZ -> X and X -> Z
(d) XZ -> Y and Y -> X

3. Given relations r(w, x) and s(y, z), the result of


select distinct w, x
from r, s
is guaranteed to be same as r, provided (GATE CS 2000)
(a) r has no duplicates and s is non-empty
(b) r and s have no duplicates
(c) s has no duplicates and r is non-empty
(d) r and s have the same number of tuples

4. In SQL, relations can contain null values, and comparisons with null values are treated
as unknown. Suppose all comparisons with a null value are treated as false. Which of the
following pairs is not equivalent? (GATE CS 2000)
(a) x = 5, not (not (x = 5)
(b) x = 5, x > 4 and x < 6, where x is an integer
(c) x < 5, not(x = 5)
(d) None of the above

5. Consider a schema R(A, B, C, D) and functional dependencies A -> B and C -> D. Then
the decomposition of R into R1 (A, B) and R2(C, D) is (GATE CS 2001)
a) dependency preserving and loss less join
b) loss less join but not dependency preserving
c) dependency preserving but not loss less join
d) not dependency preserving and not loss less join

6) Which of the following statements are TRUE about an SQL query?


P: An SQL query can contain a HAVING clause even if it does not a GROUP BY clause
Q: An SQL query can contain a HAVING clause only if it has a GROUP BY clause
R: All attributes used in the GROUP BY clause must appear in the SELECT clause
S: Not all attributes used in the GROUP BY clause need to apper in the SELECT clause
(A) P and R
(B) P and S
(C) Q and R
(D) Q and S

7) Given the basic ER and relational models, which of the following is INCORRECT?
(A) An attributes of an entity can have more that one value
(B) An attribute of an entity can be composite
(C) In a row of a relational table, an attribute can have more than one value
(D) In a row of a relational table, an attribute can have exactly one value or a NULL value

8) Suppose (A, B) and (C,D) are two relation schemas. Let r1 and r2 be the corresponding
relation instances. B is a foreign key that refers to C in r2. If data in r1 and r2 satisfy
referential integrity constraints, which of the following is ALWAYS TRUE?

9) Which of the following is TRUE?


(A) Every relation in 2NF is also in BCNF
(B) A relation R is in 3NF if every non-prime attribute of R is fully functionally dependent on
every key of R
(C) Every relation in BCNF is also in 3NF
(D) No relation can be in both BCNF and 3NF

10) Consider the above tables A, B and C. How many tuples does the result of the following
SQL query contains?
SELECT A.id
FROM A
WHERE A.age > ALL (SELECT B.age
FROM B
WHERE B. name = "arun")
(A) 4
(B) 3
(C) 0
(D) 1

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