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This document outlines the Mid Semester Examination for Database Management Systems at KIIT, detailing the structure and content of the exam. It includes various questions covering topics such as data manipulation, schema architecture, entity-relationship diagrams, and SQL queries. Students are required to answer five questions, including a mandatory question, within a time limit of 1.5 hours for a total of 25 marks.

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This document outlines the Mid Semester Examination for Database Management Systems at KIIT, detailing the structure and content of the exam. It includes various questions covering topics such as data manipulation, schema architecture, entity-relationship diagrams, and SQL queries. Students are required to answer five questions, including a mandatory question, within a time limit of 1.5 hours for a total of 25 marks.

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DBMS/CS-2004/B Tech (CSE, IT, CSCE, CSSE & ECS)/4Th Semester/ 2018

Mid Semester Examination – 2018


School of Computer Engineering
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University
Subject: Database Management System
Time: 1.5 Hrs Full Marks: 25
(Answer any Five Questions including Question No. 1)
1. Answer the following questions briefly. [1 X 5]
a. At the time of data manipulation, the database system first consults with the
data dictionary – Justify.
b. Differentiate between composite key and composite attribute.
c. Discuss whether a character field that contains a NULL value and a character
field that contains a single blank space are same or not.
d. Can a weak entity set exist without a strong entity set – Justify?
e. Differentiate between ALTER and UPDATE commands in SQL.
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2. Describe the three-schema architecture. Why do we need mappings between schema
levels? Also, differentiate between logical data independence and physical data
independence. [5]
3. Discuss the different types of constraints applicable to Generalization/Specialization.
Provide suitable examples to support your answer. [5]
4. Draw the entity-relationship diagram for the different industries as below:
There are many industries (identified by unique inid along with name, location and
contact number(s)). Each industry has multiple departments. Each department has one
unique did along with extension number. Each departments is producing multiple
products. Each product has one unique prid along with product description, price and
label. Many workers (identified by unique wid along with wname, salary, doj and
address (can be decomposed to street, city and pin) as attributes) are working in the
different departments; but, one worker can work in one department only. The workers
are managing the different products.
Make necessary assumptions. Also convert the ER diagram into relational
schemas.[5]
5. Draw the entity-relationship diagram for the Shopping Mall as follows:
There are many departments exist. Each department has one unique did, location and
strength as attributes. Employees (identified by unique empid along with ename, doj,
contactno) are working in different departments; one employee can work in maximum
one department. Different customers are visiting different departments. Employees
are managing the customers. Each customer has one unique cid along with cname and
city. All customers are categorized as Preferred Customers (membership as extra
attribute) or General Customers (shopping habits as extra attribute).
Make necessary assumptions. Also convert the ER diagram into relational
schemas.[5] [P.T.O.]
DBMS/CS-2004/B Tech (CSE, IT, CSCE, CSSE & ECS)/4Th Semester/ 2018

6. Consider the following relational schema


Student (roll, name, dob, mobno, city)
Books (isbn, title, authors, publisher)
Borrow (roll, isbn, issuedate)
a. Primary keys are underlined. Identify the foreign keys and create tables of all
the above schemas using SQL statement. [3]
b. Solve the following queries using SQL or Relational Algebra: [1+1]
i. Find the book details published by the publisher containing ‘M’ as a
character in it.
ii. Find the name of the students who are from Bhubaneswar city and took
birth before 1st January 2000.
7. Write Short notes of any two of the following: [2.5 X 2]
a. Advantages of Database System compared to traditional file processing
system.
b. Relational Database Constraints
c. Components of Database Architecture
~~~~~ ALL THE BEST ~~~~~

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