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A14-DBMS - (CSE, IT & ECM) - Reg

This document is an exam for a Database Management Systems course. It contains two parts - Part A with 10 short answer questions worth 2 marks each (total 20 marks), and Part B with 5 long answer questions worth 10 marks each (total 50 marks). The questions cover topics like disadvantages of file processing systems, differences between relational calculus approaches, stored procedures, transactions, locking, indexing, database administration, entity relationship modeling, normalization, views, nested queries, and concurrency control protocols.

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A14-DBMS - (CSE, IT & ECM) - Reg

This document is an exam for a Database Management Systems course. It contains two parts - Part A with 10 short answer questions worth 2 marks each (total 20 marks), and Part B with 5 long answer questions worth 10 marks each (total 50 marks). The questions cover topics like disadvantages of file processing systems, differences between relational calculus approaches, stored procedures, transactions, locking, indexing, database administration, entity relationship modeling, normalization, views, nested queries, and concurrency control protocols.

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Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology Regulations:

(An Autonomous Institution) A14


Code No: 4FC03 Date: 4-May-16
B. TECH. II-Year II-Semester Examinations, May 2016 (Regular)
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (Common to CSE, IT and ECM)
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 70
Note: No additional answer sheets will be provided.
Part - A
Max.Marks:20
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. EACH QUESTION CARRIES 2 MARKS.
1. What are the disadvantages of File Processing System?
2. How does Tuple-oriented relational calculus differ from domain-oriented relational calculus?
3. What are stored-procedures and what are the advantages of using them?
4. Define rollback and roll forward.
5. Write the difference between an explicit and an implicit lock.
6. Write the difference between clustered indexing and unclustered indexing.
7. Write the difference between a database administrator and a data administrator.
8. What is a weak entity set?
9. What is a database Trigger and what purpose does it serve?
10. What is normalization? What are the effects of not normalizing a database?
Part – B
Max.Marks:50
ANSWER ANY FIVE QUESTIONS. EACH QUESTION CARRIES 10 MARKS.
1. a. What are the functions of DBA?
b. Develop an E-R diagram for a junior college that offers MPC, CEC, BPC courses
2. a. Describe the procedure for killing the views.
b. With suitable examples, explain how VIEW and UPDATABLE VIEW are created for a table.
3. a. With suitable examples for each, brief any two logical connectives [4M]
b. Write SQL queries for the following situations. Assume that an appropriate table S_DATA is
created with all the necessary attributes. [1+1+2+1+1M]
i. For finding the average age of all the students in the class
ii. For finding the average height of all the students whose grade is more than 8.5

iii. Find name and age of the tallest student in the class
iv. Count the number of different student names in the table
v. Find the student with lowest grade
4. a. Write a short note on multi valued dependencies with a suitable example
b. Write the necessary conditions for the following normal forms.
i) FIRST Normal Form ii) SECOND Normal Form
iii) THIRD Normal Form iv) BCNF iv) FOURTH Normal Form
5. a. Explain about timestamp based protocol.
b. With a suitable example explain multi-valued concurrency control protocol.
6. a. What are the advantages and disadvantages of tree structured indexing?
b. Explain with example indexed sequential access method (ISAM).
7. a. Write short notes on remote backup systems.
b. Discuss optimistic concurrency control.
8. a. What are the uses of nested queries?

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b. Demonstrate the use of correlated nested queries.
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