DATABASE DESIGN II (COM 322)

PRACTICAL I

TOPIC: UNDERSTAND DIFFENT TYPES OF DATABASES

AIM: To identify various types of relational and object oriented database

management (DBMS) software.

OBJECTIVE: To let the students know the various types of relational and object
oriented database management system (DBMS) software.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Internet facilities, pen and paper

PROCEDURE:

- Visit the library or consult the internet and list out various types of
database management systems
- Group the various types into
- Relational DBMS
- Extended – Relational DBMS
- Object – Relational DBMS
- Object – Oriented DBMS
- Relational and Network DBMS
- Relational, Network and Hierarchical DBMS
- Hierarchical DBMS

OBSERVATION: State your observations

CONCLUSION: Draw conclusion based on above practical.

RESULT: Present the result of your work

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PRACTICAL 2

TOPIC: DESIGN A FORM WITH TRIGGER

AIM: To equip the student with the knowledge of designing forms and triggers
using Oracle 10G.

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate how procedural code is automatically executed in

response to certain event on a table/view.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Install Oracle 10G (Enterprise Edition)

- Launch Oracle 10G
- Name the triggers
- Create the table to be associated to the trigger
- State when the trigger will be fired
- State command to invoke the trigger (insert trigger) e.g. Before trigger
- State the condition to filter the records.
- Execute the trigger

OBSERVATION: State your observations

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion

RESULT: Present the result of your work

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PRACTICAL 3

TOPIC: DESIGN REPORT INTERFACE TO GENERATE REPORT WITH

TRIGGER

AIM: To let students have the knowledge on how to generate reports using SQL
commands (codes)

OBJECTIVE: To know how to generate reports using SQL command from an

already existing tables.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Launch Oracle 10G software

- Login to user created database
- Create student information table to contain student records of Computer
and Mass Communication.
- Populate table with student records.
- Project department from the student information table and select student
separately from each departments.
- Insert necessary codes
- Run the trigger to generate reports.

OBSERVATION: Briefly state your observations

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion

RESULT: Present the result of your work

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PRACTICAL 4

TOPIC: DESIGN OF RECORD STURCTURE AND DATA DICTIONARY

AIM: To let the student have the knowledge on how to design a record structure
and data dictionary.

OBJECTIVE: To know how to create the record structure using the design
method and also using SQL code.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Launch Oracle 10G software.

- Login to the database in practical III.
- Create record structure i.e. define the variable names, data type and field
length.

OR

- Launch oracle 10G software

- Login to the database in practical III
- Select the SQL button
- Select SQL command button
- Write SQL codes
- Run the codes

OBSERVATION: Briefly State your observations

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion

RESULT: Present the result of your work

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PRACTICAL 5

TOPIC: DESIGN OF RECORD INDEXING WITH MULTIPLE KEYS

AIM: To let the student have the knowledge of primary key, creation of foreign
key and how to analyze the table using indexing with multiple keys.

OBJECTIVE: To know how to analyze record using indexing with multiple keys

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Launch Oracle 10G software.

- Login to previous database.
- Select object browser
- Create staff table name to contain names of staff and their pay
- Show table structures describing the different data types and primary key
column.
- Create index on the LAST NAME and S/N column respectively – follow
these steps:
o Click create on the object browser
o Select index from dropdown menu
o Select the table and column to be indexed
o Specify the type of index
- Implement the index by clicking confirm button.

OBSERVATION: Briefly State your observations

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion

RESULT: Present the results of your work

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PRACTICAL 6

TOPIC: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND ORDERING IN DATABASE

AIM: To equip students with the knowledge of information retrieval and ordering
in database management system.

OBJECTIVE: To know how to use information retrieval in database management

system and SQL query using descending / ascending order.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Launch the Oracle 10G software.

- Login to database.
- Open the previous database created.
- Compose different query commands to retrieve different information
from your database
- Order the results in ascending order
- Order the results in descending order

OBSERVATION: Briefly State observations.

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion.

RESULT: Present the results of your work

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PRACTICAL 7

TOPIC: TRANSACTION PROCESSING USING SQL

AIM: To acquaint student to the use of SQL query to execute simple transaction.

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate how the content of database can be access using

SQL statement.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Launch the Oracle 10G software.

- Login to user database.
- Open the created table.
- Use SELECT statement to select the whole content of the staff paytable.
- Compose a transaction of your choice on any field(s) to automatically
affect the whole/some rows in the staff pay table
- Show updated table.

OBSERVATION: Briefly State observations.

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion.

RESULT: Present the result of your work

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PRACTICAL 8

TOPIC: TRANSACTION PROCESSING USING SQL 2

AIM: To equip students with the knowledge of database query skill.

OBJECTIVE: To know how the content of a table can be replaced using

UPDATE command.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Launch the Oracle 10G software.

- Login to user database.
- Open any of the tables you previously created.
- Use SELECT statement to create an instance of the selected table.
- Use UPDATE command to alter the content of any field of interest.
- Repeat the step above for different operations
- Show table(s).

OBSERVATION: Briefly State observations.

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion.

RESULT: Present the result of your work

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PRACTICAL 9

TOPIC: ADVANCE OPERATION USING SQL

AIM: To demonstrate how complex queries can be carried out on a database.

OBJECTIVE: To show our queries involving more than one table in database
operation.

APPARATUS/EQUIPMENT: Oracle/MySQL database, a computer system,

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PROCEDURE:

- Launch the Oracle 10G software.

- Login to your previous database.
- Open the created table.
- Select the whole content of staff pay table
- Select whole content of student information table.
- Show the table structure describing the different data types and the
primary column.
- Create a union of tables on a common field.
- Execute the union operation.

OBSERVATION: Briefly State observations.

CONCLUSION: Draw your conclusion.

RESULT: Present the result of your work

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