Database Management System: Assignment 2

Total Marks : 20

January 18, 2024

Question 1
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following table Collections :

Collections
cid item price
11 stickers 50
13 idol 1050
23 postcard 150
2 stamp 500
10 idol 2000
14 stickers 70
How many tuples will be returned by the following query?
SELECT item, price FROM Collections
WHERE price>(SELECT MIN(price) FROM Collections);

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

Answer: d)
Explanation: The SQL query returns all those tuples which are associated with price more
than 50. Hence, option (d) is correct.

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Question 2
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following table Collections :

Collections
cid item price
11 stickers 50
13 idol 1050
23 postcard 150
2 stamp 500
10 idol 2000
14 stickers 70
Which of the following options will NOT be present in the output produced by
SELECT MAX(cid) FROM COLLECTIONS GROUP BY item;?

a) 11

b) 13

c) 23

d) 2

Answer: a)
Explanation: The SQL query returns the highest value of cid for each of the item groups.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

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Question 3
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following table Delivery :

Delivery
purchaseid deliverydate delay
193 12/09/2010 10
183 15/10/2011 0
200 02/09/2011 0
2 30/09/2011 2
60 5/09/2010 4
What will be the output of the following SQL query?
SELECT COUNT(purchaseid) FROM Delivery
WHERE deliverydate LIKE ‘%2011’ AND deliverydate NOT LIKE ‘30/’;?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 5

d) 0

Answer: b)
Explanation: The SQL query returns the count of tuples having deliverydates ending
with 2011. Hence, option (b) is correct.

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Question 4
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following instance of table Employee :

Employee
id lastname firstname age
19 Rai Rajeev 24
19 Singh Rajeev 24
20 Roy Sayan 24
21 Roy Sayan 29
Identify the correct, “CREATE” statement for this table.

a) CREATE TABLE Employee (

id int NOT NULL,
lastname varchar(255) NOT NULL,
firstname varchar(255),
age int,
PRIMARY KEY (ID));

b) CREATE TABLE Employee (

id int NOT NULL,
lastname varchar(255) NOT NULL,
firstname varchar(255),
age int,
PRIMARY KEY (ID,lastName));

c) CREATE TABLE Employee (

id int,
lastname varchar(255) NOT NULL,
firstname varchar(255),
age int,
PRIMARY KEY (lastName));

d) CREATE TABLE Employee (

id int NOT NULL,
lastname varchar(255) NOT NULL,
firstname varchar(255),
age int,
PRIMARY KEY (firstname, lastName));

Answer: b)
Explanation: It is clear from the above instance that only id or only lastName cannot be
a key. Hence, the (id,lastName) pair must be the key.
Attributes in the PRIMARY KEY cannot be NULL, and (firstname,lastName) pair cannot
be the PRIMARY KEY.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

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Question 5
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the two instances:
STATIONARY
BRAND
SL PNAME
SL BNAME
1 PENCIL
1 NATARAJ
2 ERASER
4 PIERRE CARDIN
3 SHARPENER
4 SMOOTHLINK
4 PEN

Which of the following operations will generate the following output:

SL BNAME SL PNAME
1 NATARAJ 1 PENCIL
4 PIERRE CARDIN 4 PEN
4 SMOOTHLINK 4 PEN

a) BRAND INNER JOIN STATIONARY

b) STATIONARY NATURAL JOIN BRAND

c) BRAND NATURAL RIGHT OUTER JOIN STATIONARY

d) STATIONARY NATURAL LEFT OUTER JOIN BRAND

Answer: a)
Explanation: Innerjoin is a join where the join returns only the rows that have equal values
for the specified column(s) and the compared column(s) present twice.

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Question 6
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following relation instance:

Number Tab
Num1 Num2
4 5
5 7
6 7
7 8
3 4

Both attributes Num1 and Num2 are integers and do not have null values. Num1 is the primary
key of the table and Num2 is the foreign key of the same table, Number Tab and references with
on delete cascade constraints. A tuple (Num1, Num2) will be in the table only if Num1 ≤
Num2. Which of the following is possible if the tuple (5, 7) is deleted from the table?

a) The deletion of (5, 7) will be prohibited.

b) Tuple (4, 5) and (3, 4) also will be deleted.

c) Tuple (6, 7) and (7, 8) also will be deleted.

d) Only tuple (7, 8) will be deleted.

Answer: b)
Explanation: In the Number Tab(Num1, Num2), where Num1 is the primary key, and Num2 is
the foreign key which is referencing the primary key Num1 of its own relation.
Now if we delete tuple (5,7) then tuple (4,5) should also be deleted (as 5 in the tuple (4,5)
references to 5 in the tuple (5,7) which no longer exists; hence, the referencing tuple should
also be deleted), and as (4,5) is deleted, tuple (3,4) should also be deleted for the same reason.
Therefore, in total, 3 rows have to be deleted if the tuple (5,7) is deleted.
Hence, option b) is correct.

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Question 7
Marks: 2 MSQ
Suppose a bank wants to make a view consisting of the names of customers having loan in
‘MUMBAI’ branch with the loan amount being more than equal to 50000 but less than equal to
70000.

• loan(loan number, branch name, amount)

• borrower(customer name, loan number)

Identify the correct query from the following. Primary keys are underlined in the schema.

a) CREATE VIEW v1 AS
SELECT customer_name
FROM loan, borrower
WHERE branch_name = ‘MUMBAI’
AND loan.loan_number = borrower.loan_number
AND amount >= 50000 AND amount <= 70000;

b) CREATE VIEW v1 AS
SELECT customer_name
FROM loan
WHERE branch_name = ‘MUMBAI’
AND amount >= 50000 AND amount <= 70000;

c) CREATE VIEW v1 AS
SELECT customer_name
FROM loan, borrower
WHERE branch_name = ‘MUMBAI’
AND loan.loan_number = borrower.loan_number
AND amount BETWEEN 50000 AND 70000;

d) CREATE VIEW v1 AS
SELECT customer_name
FROM loan, borrower
WHERE branch_name = ‘MUMBAI’
AND amount >= 50000, amount <= 70000;

Answer: a), c)

Explanation: The Syntax for creating a VIEW in SQL is:

CREATE VIEW view name AS

SELECT column1, column2...
FROM table name
WHERE condition;

Moreover, the joining will be used to avoid duplicate values in the view. So, from the above
only option a) and c) are satisfying the requirements and rest are incorrect.
Option b) generates error,"CUSTOMER NAME": invalid identifier since borrower table is missing
in the FROM clause.
Option d) also generates error – SQL command not properly ended since the conditions are
combined through (,) instead of AND operator.

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Question 8
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following instance of StudentDetails(StudName, DeptName, Address, Age)
relation.

StudentDetails
StudName DeptName Address Age
Ayush CSE Kolkata 28
Priya CSE Hyderabad 26
Ankush IT Kolkata 30
Rumki IT Hyderabad 25
Sujit ECE Bangalore 24
Sayan IEE Mumbai 28

Identify the correct statement(s) to get the following output:

StudentDetails
StudName DeptName Address Age
Ayush CSE Kolkata 28
Ankush IT Kolkata 30
Rumki IT Hyderabad 25
Sayan IEE Mumbai 28

a) SELECT * FROM StudentDetails

WHERE Age>=28;

b) SELECT * FROM StudentDetails

WHERE DeptName=‘IT’;

c) SELECT * FROM StudentDetails

WHERE Age>=28 AND DeptName=‘IT’;

d) SELECT * FROM StudentDetails

WHERE Age>=28 OR DeptName=‘IT’;

Answer: d)
Explanation: Output table containing tuples whose Age is greater than or equal to 28 or
DeptName=‘IT’.
Hence, option d) is correct.

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Question 9
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following instance of StudentDetails(StudName, DeptName, Address, Age)
relation.

StudentDetails
StudName DeptName Address Age
Ayush CSE Kolkata 28
Priya CSE Hyderabad 26
Ankush IT Kolkata 30
Rumki IT Hyderabad 25
Sujit ECE Bangalore 24
Sayan IEE Mumbai 28

Identify the correct SQL command to find the average age of students in the CSE depart-
ment.

a) SELECT avg(Age) from StudentDetails;

b) SELECT avg(Age) from StudentDetails where DeptName=‘CSE’;

c) SELECT * from StudentDetails where DeptName=‘CSE’ AND avg(Age);

d) SELECT * from StudentDetails where DeptName=‘CSE’ OR avg(Age);

Answer: b)
Explanation: As per SQL syntax, avg(Age) is used to find the average age, in which condition
used DeptName=‘CSE’ to find the students whose department name is ‘CSE’.
Hence, option b) is correct.

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Question 10
Marks: 2 MCQ
Consider the following instance of StudentDetails(StudName, DeptName, Address, Age)
relation.

StudentDetails
StudName DeptName Address Age
Ayush CSE Kolkata 28
Priya CSE Hyderabad 26
Ankush IT Kolkata 30
Rumki IT Hyderabad 25
Sujit ECE Bangalore 24
Sayan IEE Mumbai 28

Identify the correct statement(s) to find the StudName and Address whose Age is greater than
the Age of all students in the ‘IT’ department.

a) SELECT StudName, Address from StudentDetails

where Age > (select Age
from StudentDetails
where DeptName = ‘IT’);

b) SELECT StudName, Address from StudentDetails

where Age > all (select Age
from StudentDetails
where DeptName = ‘IT’);

c) SELECT StudName, Address from StudentDetails

where Age > (select max(Age)
from StudentDetails
where DeptName = ‘IT’);

d) SELECT StudName, Address from StudentDetails

where Age > for (select Age
from StudentDetails
where DeptName = ‘IT’);

Answer: b)
Explanation: The all operator returns TRUE if ALL of the subquery values meet the
condition.
Hence, option b) is correct.

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