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    The document is an assignment for a Database Systems course that contains 6 questions asking students to: 1) Explain why duplicate tuples are not allowed in relations 2) Define the difference between a key and superkey 3) Explain why one candidate key is designated the primary key 4) Define the concept of a foreign key and what it is used for 5) Write SQL statements to perform 5 update operations and 1 insert operation on database tables shown in a figure

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    Faculty of Engineering

    Fall Semester
    and Technology
    2022-2023
    Database Systems (1)
    Assignment (3) COM 232

    1. Why are duplicate tuples not allowed in a relation?


    2. What is the difference between a key and a superkey?
    3. Why do we designate one of the candidate keys of a relation to be the primary key?
    4. Define foreign key. What is this concept used for?
    5. Suppose that each of the following Update operations is applied directly to the database state shown
    in Figure 3.6. Write SQL Statements for the below sentences:
    • Modify the Hours attribute of the WORKS_ON tuple with Essn = ‘999887777’ and Pno =
    10 to ‘5.0’.
    • Modify the Super_ssn attribute of the EMPLOYEE tuple with Ssn = ‘999887777’ to
    ‘943775543’.
    • Modify the Mgr_ssn and Mgr_start_date of the DEPARTMENT tuple with Dnumber = 5
    to ‘123456789’ and ‘2007-10-01’, respectively.
    • Delete the PROJECT tuple with Pname = ‘ProductX’.
    • Delete the EMPLOYEE tuple with Ssn = ‘987654321’.
    • Insert <‘Production’, 4, ‘943775543’, ‘2007-10-01’> into Department.
    • Insert <’Robert’, ‘F’, ‘Scott’, ‘94377’, ‘1972-06-21’, ‘Newcastle Rd’, Bellaire, TX’, M,
    58000, ‘888665555’, 1 >into EMPLOYEE.

    Good Luck

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