Anna University Chennai 2007 M.E DATABASE MANAGENT SYSTEM - Question Paper

part A---(10 * 1=10 marks)

1.) What is physical data independence?
2.) describe candidate key.
3.)Define cardinality of a relation.
4.) what is formula?
5.) What is DML?
6.) describe transaction.
7.) What is lossless-join?
8.) Expand DES.
9.)What is meant by pipelined parallelism?
10.) What is data skew?

part B---(5 * 3=15 marks)
ans ALL ques..

11.) (a) Compare file system versus a DBMS.
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(b) Write short notes on weak entities.

12.) (a) Descripe primary and foreign key constraints with suitable examples.
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(b) discuss briefy semantics of TRC queries.

13.) (a) What is trigger? How do you creat it ? provide an example.
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(b) What is schedule? elaborate the various kinds of schedules?

14.) (a) What is multivalued dependency? provide an example.
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(b) Write short notes on various access controls.

15.) (a) discuss briefly various kinds of distributed DBMS architectures.
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(b) What is substitution principle? provide an example.

part C---(5 * 10 =50 marks)
ans ALL ques..

16.) (a) (i) Explian various levels of abstraction in a DBMS. (6)
(ii) Compare entities versus attributes. (4)
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(b) Construct an E-R diagram ofr a univrsity registrar's office.The office maintance data about every class,including the instructor,the enrollment and place of the class meetings. For every student-class pair,a grade is recorded.Document that you make about the mapping constraints.

17.) (a) discuss any 5 relational algebra operators with suitable examples.
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(b) (i) Discues how do you enforce integrity constraints.
(ii) Write short notes on logical data base design.

18.) (a) (i) Descripe the specification of complex integrity constraints in SQL-92.
(ii) discuss the characteristics of transaction.
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(b) explain lock-based concurrency control in detail.

19.) (a) discuss BCNF and 3NF with suitable examples.
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(b) What is deadlock? discuss how do you prevent and detect it with suitable examples.

20.) (a) (i) explain the architecture of parallel databases.
(ii) Compare RDBMS,OODBMS and ORDBMS.
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(b) discuss the various ranging from RDBMS and ORDBMS database design through examples.

Earning:   Approval pending.