CS304 - Assignment 02

Reg No : 050293R
Name : Skandhakumar Nimalaprakasan

Chapter 1
(1) 1.6
File-processing system DBMS
Pre-written programs give access to data and Flexible queries give access to the data and
new programs are needed for each need quarry can be written for the need in SQL
Data redundancy, inconsistency, and isolation, Reduces the amount of data duplication and
when multiple files are created with same data increases consistency
Physical access to the data Physical and logical access to the data
Concurrent access and Security problems Designed to coordinate and permit multiple
users to access data at the same time, and
concurrency issues are handled effectively
handled

(2) 1.9
● If a library of C or C++ functions is provided, then we wont be able to access the
database from programs written in other languages directly, and database can be
managed independent of the language the host program is written in.
● A library can provide only a limited number of pre-determined functions for accessing
the database, whereas in a declarative query language, the user will be able to create
many number of distinct quarries with his/her imagination and thus we will be having a
large spectrum of different quarries.

Chapter 2
(3) 2.5
a) ∏person_name(σ company_name= “First Bank Corporation” (works))
b) ∏person_name,city(σ company_name= “First Bank Corporation” (works x employee))
c) ∏person_name, street, city (σ (company_name= “First Bank Corporation” ∩ salary > 10,000) (works x employee))
d) ∏person_name (σ (company.city =employee.city (σworks.person_name=employee.person_name (works x employee x
company)))

e) (σ company_name = “Small Bank Corporation” (company)) ÷ ∏city (σ company_name = “Small Bank Corporation”

(company))