Download JNTUH (Jawaharlal nehru technological university) MCA (Master of Computer Applications) 3rd Sem (Third Semester) Regulation-R15 2018 June-July 823AC Database Management Systems Previous Question Paper
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Code No: 823AC
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
MCA III Semester Examinations, June/July - 2018
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Time: 3hrs
Max.Marks:75
Note: This question paper contains two parts A and B.
Part A is compulsory which carries 25 marks. Answer all questions in Part A. Part B
consists of 5 Units. Answer any one full question from each unit. Each question carries
10 marks and may have a, b, c as sub questions.
PART - A
5 ? 5 Marks = 25
1.a) Define types of relationships in ER diagram.
[5]
b) Explain types of Logical connectivity's.
[5]
c) Differentiate Lossy and Lossless decomposition.
[5]
d) What is ARIES?
[5]
e) Define Structure of B+ trees.
[5]
PART - B
5 ? 10 Marks = 50
2.
Define ER model and Explain the following kinds of constraints that can be specified in
the ER diagram, and give an example of each: a) key constraint b) participation constraint.
[10]
OR
3.
Define Data Model. Explain types of data models with suitable examples. Exaplin.[10]
4.
Explain in detail about Relational Algebra, Domain Relational Calculus and Tuple
Relational Calculus with suitable examples.
[10]
OR
5.a) What is an unsafe query? Give an example and explain why it is important to disallow such
queries?
b) What is relational completeness? If a query language is relationally complete, can you
write any desired query in that language? Justify.
[5+5]
6.a) What are the properties of Decomposition? Discuss about loss less join Decomposition.
b) What is meant by functional dependency and multi valued dependency?
[5+5]
OR
7.a) Consider a relation R with five attributes ABCDE. You are given the following
Dependencies: A -> B, BC -> E, and ED -> A.
i) List all keys for R ii) Is R in 3NF? iii) Is R in BCNF.
b) Which of the following decompositions of R=ABCDEG, with the same set of dependencies
F, is (i) Dependency-preserving? (ii) Lossless-join?
I) {AB, BC, ABDE, EG} II) {ABC, ACDE, ADG}
[5+5]
8.
State and explain various Lock-based concurrency control mechanisms and algorithms.
[10]
OR
9.
What is Deadlock? Discuss the methods for handling Deadlocks.
[10]
10.
Explain the File organization types and its techniques.
[10]
OR
11.
What are Index data structures? Explain with suitable examples the hash based indexing.
[10]
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