1. Discuss about DDL.

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2. Explain about DML languages. [2]
3. Explain views in SQL Language [2]
4. What is data abstraction in DBMS? [2]
5. What is DBMS? What are the goals of DBMS? [2]
6. How to represent the Role and Strong entity set in E-R model? [3]

7. What is the difference between super key and candidate key in a relation? [3]

8. Differentiate between DROP, TRUNCATE and DELETE commands in SQL. [3]

9. Write brief notes on altering tables and views. [3]

10. Explain the three levels of abstraction. [3]

11. Describe about outer join. [2]

12. What is meant by nested querie? [3]

13. Explain integrity constraints over relations. [2]

14. What are ACID properties? Explain? [3]

15. Give an example for total participation and partial participation.[3M]

16. List the primitive operators in Relational Algebra.[2M]

17. What is an active database?[3M]

18. Differentiate between schema and data model. [2]

19. What is a relation? Differentiate between relation schema and relation instance.
Define the term arity and degree of a relation? What are domain constraints? [5]
What are the main components of DBMS and briefly explain what they do [5]

Discuss the functionality of query evaluation engine.[5]

Explain the following a) view of data b) data abstraction c) instances and schema [5]

Distinguish between file systems and DBMS.

Describe class hierarchies in ER model with an example. [7+8]

What is the difference between a candidate key and the primary key for a given
relation? What is a superkey?
 Discuss about translating relationship sets with participation constraints. [7+8]

With a suitable example explain division operation in relational algebra. [5]

Compare and contrast file Systems with database systems [5]

What is Data model? Discuss about ER Model and Relational model. [5]

What is data independence and how does a DBMs support. [5]

Define generalization, specialization and aggregation. How it is represented in E-R

Model? [5]

What is a data model? What are the different data models? Explain E-R model and
relation model briefly. [5]

Describe the Structure of DBMS. [5]

Write short notes on difference, union, rename and Cartesian product operations in
relational algebra. [5]

Explain database users, user interfaces, DBA and functions of a DBA [5]

What are the application programs? Explain database access for application
programs. [5]

What is null attribute? With suitable diagram explain weak and strong entity set[5]

Discuss in detail about the properties of relation algebra. [5]

How we can convert relationship sets with key constraints into tables?[5]

Explain the relational database architecture.[10]

 State and explain various features of E-R Models.[10]

PROJECT BASED QUESTIONS

1) Construct an Entity-Relationship diagram for a online shopping systems such as

Jabong/Flipcart. Quote your assumptions and list the requirements considered by you
for conceptual database design for the above system. [10]

2) Consider the following schema to write queries in Domain relational calculus:

Sailor(sid, sname, age, rating)
Boats(bid, bname, bcolor) Reserves(sid,bid,day)

a) Find the boats reserved by sailor with id 567.

b) Find the names of the sailors who reserved ‘red’ boats.
c) Find the boats which have at least two reservations by different sailors. [10]

3) Develop E-R diagram for a hospital with a set of patients and a set of medical doctors
associated with each patient a log of various test and examination conducted. [5]

4) Create a table with employee details like eno, ename, bdate, address, dno, age,
phone number. List the name. eno, dname and phone number of the employee who are
also the managers of the respective department? [3]