Database Management System
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Functional Dependencies and Normalization
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Structured Query Language
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Relational Algebra
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Transactions and Concurrency
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File Structures and Indexing
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GATE CSE 2005
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6

A company maintains records of sales made by its salespersons and pays them commission based on each individual’s total sales made in a year. This data is maintained in a table with following schema:

salesinfo = (salespersonid, totalsales, commission)

In a certain year, due to better business results, the company decides to further reward its salespersons by enhancing the commission paid to them as per the following formula:

If commission < = 50000, enhance it by 2%
If 50000 < commission < = 100000, enhance it by 4%
If commission > 100000, enhance it by 6%

The IT staff has written three different SQL scripts to calculate enhancement for each slab, each of these scripts is to run as a separate transaction as follows:

T1: Update salesinfo
 Set commission = commission * 1.02
 Where commission < = 50000;

T2: Update salesinfo
 Set commission = commission * 1.04
 Where commission > 50000 and commission is < = 100000;

T3: Update salesinfo
 Set commission = commission * 1.06
 Where commission > 100000;
Which of the following options of running these transactions will update the commission of all salespersons correctly?
A
Execute T1 followed by T2 followed by T3
B
Execute T2, followed by T3; T1 running concurrently throughout
C
Execute T3 followed by T2; T1 running concurrently throughout
D
Execute T3 followed by T2 followed by T1
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GATE CSE 2005
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
The relation book (title, price) contains the titles and prices of different books. Assuming that no two books have the same price, what does the following SQL query list?
Select title
 From book as B
 Where (select count(*)
   From book as T
   Where T.price > B.price) < 5;
A
Titles of the four most expensive books
B
Title of the fifth most inexpensive book
C
Title of the fifth most expensive book
D
Titles of the five most expensive books
3
GATE CSE 2005
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
In an inventory management system implemented at a trading corporation, there are several tables designed to hold all the information. Amongst these, the following two tables hold information on which items are supplied by which suppliers, and which warehouse keeps which items along with the stock-level of these items.

Supply = (supplierid, itemcode)
Inventory = (itemcode, warehouse, stocklevel)

For a specific information required by the management, following SQL query has been written

Select distinct STMP.supplierid 
From Supply as STMP 
Where not unique (Select ITMP.supplierid 
    From Inventory, Supply as ITMP 
    Where STMP.supplierid = ITMP.supplierid 
    And ITMP.itemcode = Inventory.itemcode 
    And Inventory.warehouse = 'Nagpur');
For the warehouse at Nagpur, this query will find all suppliers who
A
do not supply any item
B
supply exactly one item
C
supply one or more items
D
supply two or more items
4
GATE CSE 2004
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
Consider two tables in a relational database with columns and rows as follows:

 Table: Student

Roll_no Name Dept_id
1 ABC 1
2 DEF 1
3 GHI 2
4 JKL 3

 Table: Department

Dept_id Dept_name
1 A
2 B
3 C

Roll_no is the primary key of the Student table, Dept_id is the primary key of the Department table and Studetn.Dept_id is a foreign key from
Department. Dept_id.

What will happen if we try to execute the following two SQL statements?
(i) update Student set Dept_id = Null where Roll_no =1
(ii) update Department set Dept_id = Null where Dept_id =1
A
Both (i) and (ii) will fail
B
(i) will fail but (ii) will succeed
C
(i) will succeed but (ii) will fail
D
Both (i) and (ii) will succeed
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