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GATE CSE 2005
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
A table ‘student’ with schema (roll, name, hostel, marks), and another table ‘hobby’ with schema (roll, hobbyname) contains records as shown below:
Table: student
| Roll | Name | Hostel | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1798 | Manoj Rathod | 7 | 95 |
| 2154 | Soumic Banerjee | 5 | 68 |
| 2369 | Gumma Reddy | 7 | 86 |
| 2581 | Pradeep Pendse | 6 | 92 |
| 2643 | Suhas Kulkarni | 5 | 78 |
| 2711 | Nitin Kadam | 8 | 72 |
| 2872 | Kiran Vora | 5 | 92 |
| 2926 | Manoj Kunkalikar |
5 | 94 |
| 2959 | Hemant Karkhanis |
7 | 88 |
| 3125 | Rajesh Doshi | 5 | 82 |
Table: hobby
| Roll | Hobbyname |
|---|---|
| 1798 | chess |
| 1798 | music |
| 2154 | music |
| 2369 | swimming |
| 2581 | cricket |
| 2643 | chess |
| 2643 | hockey |
| 2711 | volleyball |
| 2872 | football |
| 2926 | cricket |
| 2959 | photography |
| 3125 | music |
| 3125 | chess |
The following SQL query is executed on the above tables:
Select hostel
From student natural join hobby
Where marks > = 75 and roll between 2000 and 3000;
Relations S and H with the same schema as those of these two tables respectively contain the same information as tuples. A new relation S’ is obtained by the following relational algebra operation:
$$\eqalign{ & S' = \prod\nolimits_{hostel} {(({\sigma _{S.roll = H.roll}}} \cr & ({\sigma _{marks > 75\,\,\,and\,\,roll > 2000\,\,and\,\,roll < 3000}}(S))X(H)) \cr} $$The difference between the number of rows output by the SQL statement and the number of tuples in S’ is
2
GATE CSE 2004
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
Consider the relation Student (name, sex, marks), where the primary key is shown underlined, pertaining to students in a class that has at least one boy and one girl. What does the following relational algebra expression produce?
(Note: ρ is the rename operator).


3
GATE CSE 2001
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
Which of the following relational calculus expressions is not safe?
4
GATE CSE 1998
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
Which of the following query transformations (i.e. replacing the l.h.s. expression by the r.h.s. expression) is incorrect? R1 and R2 are relations, C1, C2 are selection conditions and A1, A2 are attributes of R1?
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