MCA (Revised)

Term-End Enamination
December, 2OO7

MGS-043: ADVANCEDDATABASEDESIGN
Time : 3 hours
Note :

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Maximum Marks: 100

Question number 7 is compulsory.

three quesfions t'rom the rest.

Answer any

(a) ' Why is the functional dependency called so ?

Consider the following functional dependency :
if you study -+ you will pass

Create instanies where this functional dependency

will hold,/not hold.

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(b) .;Create and explain an object oriented'database for

the following UML diagram. Assume your attributes
and functions.

(c)

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Considerthe following table :

Employee name Project_name

Dependgnt-name

Mohan

Shyam

Mohan

Ram

Mohan

Ram

Mohan

Shyam

Identify the multivalueddependenciesin the above

table and write an SQL code to check whether the
table satisfiesthe multivalueddependencyidentified
by you
(d)

Explain the Apriori algorithm for finding frequent

itemsetsusing an example.
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3.

(a)

What are assertions ? What is the syntax for

declaration of an assertion ? Also, give an example
of assertion
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(b)

Explain any two examplesof vendor-specificsecurity. 10

(a)

Given the relational schemas:

'

ENROLL (S#, C#, Section) S# represents student

number.
TEACH (Prof, C#, Sectionl C# r:eprgsentscourse
number
ADVISE (Prof, S*) Prof is a thesis advisor of S#
.

GRADES (S*, C#, Grade, Year)

STUDENT (S#, Sname) Sname is a student name
Write queries expressedin relational algebra.

(i)

.List all studentstaking courses with Mohan or

Shyam.

(ii)

Ust all studentstaking at least one course that

their advisor teaches.

(iiil List those professorswho teach more than one

section of the same course.
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4.

Explain the architecture of a Data warehouse with

the help of a figure.

I.

(a)

Explain the tasks in the KDD processwith the help

of a figure.
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(b)

Explain ihe architeciure of Oracle 10g with the help

of a figure.

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(a) " Considerthe universalrelation

R : {A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, Jl and a set of

functional dependencies.

[1'Tl

F: l o - o t f
l F- c H l
[o-+tJ )

DecomposeR into BCNF.

(b)

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Explaimthe component architectureof DDBMS with

the help of a figure.
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