Information Technology

Mia Johnson
October 30, 2020
Homework
Instructions: Answer the questions from the scanned document in the Google Classroom.
1. The technical Council have created a database with one table named ‘SKILL’ to store information on
people certified as Assessors and Trainers. Part of the database is shown below.
Last Name First Name Specialization Gender DOE(MM-DD-YYYY)
[M/F]

Smith Paul Assessor M 10/11/2012

Allen Mary Trainer F 08/23/2013
Ally Iqbal Trainer M 06/10/2012
Blair Sheldon Assessor M 02/25/2013
Persaud Miriam Assessor F 02/05/2012

(a) Name two data-types used in the SKILL table.

Two data-types used in the SKILL table include
 Short Text
 Date/Tine

(b) If the data were sorted by DOE(MM-DD-YYYY) field in ascending order, state the last name of the
person who would be at the top of the sorted table.
In this scenario, the last name Persaud would be at the top of the table.

2. Consider the databases below which consists of two tables REGION and SCHOOL, and answer the
questions that follow.
TABLE: REGION
RCode RName
C CENTRAL
N NORTH
S SOUTH
 TABLE: SCHOOL
RCode SchoolName No.ofStudents
C Rio High School 876
S Truesouth High School 678
N Northern Secondary 567
S Caster College 398
S Realise Secondary 234
C Care Academy 120

(a) State:

(i) the number of records in the SCHOOL table- SIX

(ii) the field that can be used as a primary key in the SCHOOL table- SchoolName
(iii) an appropriate datatype for No.ofStudents field- Number
(iv) the field that can be used to join the two tables- RCode