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GATE CSE 2005
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6

A company maintains records of sales made by its salespersons and pays them commission based on each individual’s total sales made in a year. This data is maintained in a table with following schema:

salesinfo = (salespersonid, totalsales, commission)

In a certain year, due to better business results, the company decides to further reward its salespersons by enhancing the commission paid to them as per the following formula:

If commission < = 50000, enhance it by 2%
If 50000 < commission < = 100000, enhance it by 4%
If commission > 100000, enhance it by 6%

The IT staff has written three different SQL scripts to calculate enhancement for each slab, each of these scripts is to run as a separate transaction as follows:

T1: Update salesinfo
 Set commission = commission * 1.02
 Where commission < = 50000;

T2: Update salesinfo
 Set commission = commission * 1.04
 Where commission > 50000 and commission is < = 100000;

T3: Update salesinfo
 Set commission = commission * 1.06
 Where commission > 100000;
Which of the following options of running these transactions will update the commission of all salespersons correctly?
A
Execute T1 followed by T2 followed by T3
B
Execute T2, followed by T3; T1 running concurrently throughout
C
Execute T3 followed by T2; T1 running concurrently throughout
D
Execute T3 followed by T2 followed by T1
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GATE CSE 2004
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6

The employee information in a company is stored in the relation

Employee (name, sex, salary, deptName)

Consider the following SQL query

  Select deptName
  From Employee
  Where sex = ‘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
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GATE CSE 2004
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
Consider two tables in a relational database with columns and rows as follows:

 Table: Student

Roll_no Name Dept_id
1 ABC 1
2 DEF 1
3 GHI 2
4 JKL 3

 Table: Department

Dept_id Dept_name
1 A
2 B
3 C

Roll_no is the primary key of the Student table, Dept_id is the primary key of the Department table and Studetn.Dept_id is a foreign key from
Department. Dept_id.

What will happen if we try to execute the following two SQL statements?
(i) update Student set Dept_id = Null where Roll_no =1
(ii) update Department set Dept_id = Null where Dept_id =1
A
Both (i) and (ii) will fail
B
(i) will fail but (ii) will succeed
C
(i) will succeed but (ii) will fail
D
Both (i) and (ii) will succeed
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GATE CSE 2004
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
A relational database contains two table student and department in which student table has columns roll_no, name and dept_id and department table has columns dept_id and detp_name. the following insert statements were executed successfully to populate the empty tables:
 Insert into department values (1, ‘Mathematics’)
 Insert into department values (2, ‘Physics’)
 Insert into student values (1, ‘Navin’,1)
 Insert into student values (2, ‘Mukesh’,2)
 Insert into student values (3, ‘Gita’,1)
How many rows and columns will be retrieved by the following SQL statement?
Select * from student, department;
A
0 row and 4 columns
B
3 rows and 4 columns
C
3 rows and 5 columns
D
6 rows and 5 columns

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