1
GATE CSE 1998
Subjective
+2
-0
Consider the following database relations containing the attributes
Book–id
Subject–Category–of–book
Name–of–Author
Nationality–of–Author
With book–id as the primary key.
(a) What is the highest normal form satisfied by this relation?

(b) Suppose the attributes Book–title and Author–address are added to the relation, and the primary key is changed to {Name–of–Author, Book–title}, what will be the highest normal form satisfied by the relation?

2
GATE CSE 1998
Subjective
+2
-0

Suppose we have a database consisting of the following three relations.

FREQUENTS (student, parlor) giving the parlors each student visits.

SERVES (parlor, ice-cream) indicating what kind of ice-creams each parlor serves.

LIKES (student, ice-cream) indicating what ice-creams each student likes.

(Assume that each student likes at least one ice-cream and frequents at least one parlor)

Express the following in SQL:
Print the students that frequent at least one parlor that serves some ice-cream that they like.

3
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?
A
$$\sigma_{C_1} \left(\sigma_{C_2}\left(R_1\right)\right) \to \sigma_{C_2} \left(\sigma_{C_1}\left(R_1\right)\right)$$
B
$$\sigma_{C_1} \left(\pi_{A_1}\left(R_1\right)\right) \to \pi_{A_1} \left(\sigma_{C_1}\left(R_1\right)\right)$$
C
$$\sigma_{C_1} \left(R_1 \cup R_2\right) \to \sigma_{C_1}\left(R_1\right) \cup \sigma_{C_1} \left(R_2\right)$$
D
$$\pi_{A_1} \left(\sigma_{C_1}\left(R_1\right)\right) \to \sigma_{C_1} \left(\pi_{A_1}\left(R_1\right)\right)$$
4
GATE CSE 1998
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+1
-0.3

There are five records in a database.

Name Age Occupation Category
Rama 27 CON A
Abdul 22 ENG A
Jennifer
28 DOC B
Maya 32 SER D
Dev 24 MUS C

There is an index file associated with this and it contains the values 1, 3, 2, 5 and 4. Which one of the fields is the index built from?

A
Age
B
Name
C
Occupation
D
Category
EXAM MAP
Medical
NEETAIIMS
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
GATE CSEGATE ECEGATE EEGATE MEGATE CEGATE PIGATE IN
Civil Services
UPSC Civil Service
Defence
NDA
Staff Selection Commission
SSC CGL Tier I
CBSE
Class 12