2nd Unit

1. Which of the following statements are TRUE about an SQL query?
P : An SQL query can contain a HAVING clause even

if it does not have a GROUP BY clause
Q : An SQL query can contain a HAVING clause only
if it has a GROUP BY clause
R : All attributes used in the GROUP BY clause must
appear in the SELECT clause
S : Not all attributes used in the GROUP BY clause
need to appear in the SELECT clause
A. P and R
B. P and S
C. Q and R
D. Q and S
2. A relational schema for a train reservation database is given below. Passenger (pid, pname,
age) Reservation (pid, class, tid)
Table: Passenger
pid pname age
-----------------
0 Sachin 65
1 Rahul 66
2 Sourav 67
3 Anil 69
Table : Reservation
pid class tid
---------------
0 AC 8200
1 AC 8201
2 SC 8201
5 AC 8203
1 SC 8204
3 AC 8202
What pids are returned by the following SQL query for the above instance of the tables?
SELECT pid
FROM Reservation ,
WHERE class ‘AC’ AND
EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM Passenger
WHERE age > 65 AND
Passenger. pid = Reservation.pid)
A. 1, 0
B. 1, 2
C. 1, 3
D. 1, 5
3. Consider the following relational schema:

Suppliers(sid:integer, sname:string, city:string, street:string)
Parts(pid:integer, pname:string, color:string)
Catalog(sid:integer, pid:integer, cost:real)
Consider the following relational query on the above database:
SELECT S.sname
FROM Suppliers S
WHERE S.sid NOT IN (SELECT C.sid
FROM Catalog C
WHERE C.pid NOT IN (SELECT P.pid
FROM Parts P
WHERE P.color<> 'blue'))
Assume that relations corresponding to the above schema are not empty. Which one of the
following is the correct interpretation of the above query?
A. Find the names of all suppliers who have supplied a non-blue part.
B. Find the names of all suppliers who have not supplied a non-blue part.
C. Find the names of all suppliers who have supplied only blue parts.
D. Find the names of all suppliers who have not supplied only blue parts.
4. SQL allows tuples in relations, and correspondingly defines the multiplicity of tuples in the
result of joins. Which one of the following queries always gives the same answer as the nested
query shown below:
select * from R where a in (select S.a from S)
A. select R.* from R, S where R.a=S.a (D)
B. select distinct R.* from R,S where R.a=S.a
C. select R.* from R,(select distinct a from S) as S1 where R.a=S1.a
D. select R.* from R,S where R.a=S.a and is unique R
5. Which of the following command is used to delete a table in SQL?

A. delete
B. truncate
C. remove
D. drop
6. Consider the relation account (customer, balance) where customer is a primary key and there
are no null values. We would like to rank customers according to decreasing balance. The
customer with the largest balance gets rank 1. ties are not broke but ranks are skipped: if exactly
two customers have the largest balance they each get rank 1 and rank 2 is not assigned
Query1:
select A.customer, count(B.customer)
from account A, account B
where A.balance <=B.balance
group by A.customer
Query2:
select A.customer, 1+count(B.customer)
from account A, account B
where A.balance < B.balance
group by A.customer
Consider these statements about Query1 and Query2.
1. Query1 will produce the same row set as Query2 for
some but not all databases.
2. Both Query1 and Query2 are correct implementation
of the specification
3. Query1 is a correct implementation of the specification
but Query2 is not
4. Neither Query1 nor Query2 is a correct implementation
of the specification
5. Assigning rank with a pure relational query takes
less time than scanning in decreasing balance order
assigning ranks using ODBC.
Which two of the above statements are correct?
A. 2 and 5
B. 1 and 3
C. 1 and 4
D. 3 and 5
7. 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 bookTitles of the five most expensive books
D. Titles of the five most expensive books
8. The employee information in a company is stored in the relation

Employee (name, gender, salary, deptName)
Consider the following SQL query
select deptName
from Employee
where gender = 'M'
group by deptName
having avg (salary) > (select avg (salary) from Employee)
It returns the names of the department in which
A. the average salary is more than the average salary in the company
B. the average salary of male employees is more than the average salary of all male employees in the
company
C. the average salary of male employees is more than the average salary of employees in the same
department
D. the average salary of male employees is more than the average salary in the company
9. Consider the following three table to store student enrollements in different courses.
Student(EnrollNo, Name)
Course(CourseID, Name)
EnrollMents(EnrollNo, CourseID)
What does the following query do?

SELECT S.Name
FROM Student S, Course C, Enrollments E
WHERE S.EnrollNo = E.EnrollNo AND
C.Name = "DBMS" AND
E.CourseID = C.CourseID AND
S.EnrollNo IN
(SELECT S2.EnrollNo
FROM Student S2, Course C2, Enrollments E2
WHERE S2.EnrollNo = E2.EnrollNo AND
E2.CourseID = C2.CourseID
C2.Name = "OS")
A. Name of all students who are either enrolled in "DBMS" or "OS" courses
B. Name of all students who are enrolled in "DBMS" and "OS"
C. Name of all students who are either enrolled in "DBMS" or "OS" or both.
D. None
10. Given the following statements:

S1: A foreign key declaration can always
be replaced by an equivalent check
assertion in SQL.
S2: Given the table R(a,b,c) where a and
b together form the primary key, the
following is a valid table definition.
CREATE TABLE S (
a INTEGER,
d INTEGER,
e INTEGER,
PRIMARY KEY (d),
FOREIGN KEY (a) references R)
Which one of the following statements is CORRECT?
A. S1 is TRUE and S2 is FALSE.
B. Both S1 and S2 are TRUE.
C. S1 is FALSE and S2 is TRUE.
D. Both S1 and S2 are FALSE

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1. Which of the following statements are TRUE about an SQL query?

P : An SQL query can contain a HAVING clause even

3. Consider the following relational schema:

5. Which of the following command is used to delete a table in SQL?

8. The employee information in a company is stored in the relation

What does the following query do?

10. Given the following statements:

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