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NOVEMBER 2014 56715/PSC4N

Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

PART A — (10  1 = 10 marks)

Answer ALL questions.

1. Define schema.
2. What is candidate key?
3. Define atomic domain.
4. What is meant by nesting?
5. Define the term file.
6. What is skew?
7. Mention the states of transaction.
8. Write the phases in two phase locking protocol.
9. What is fine granularity parallelism?
10. What are the different forms of data
transparency?

PART B — (5  5 = 25 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

11. Write notes on set operations.
12. What are the different types of join? Explain.
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13. Give a brief note on B tree index files.

14. Discuss on choice of evaluation plans.

15. How do you implement atomicity and durability?

16. Briefly describe about buffer management.

17. Write short notes on recovery and availability of

MSSQL server.

PART C — (4  10 = 40 marks)

Answer any FOUR questions.

18. Write an overview about relational model.

19. Explain decomposition using functional

dependencies in detail.

20. Explain briefly about file organization.

21. Describe in detail about query processing.

22. How to handle deadlock? Explain.

23. Write detailed notes on distributed databases.

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