1. Which forms simplifies and ensures that there are minimal data aggregates and repetitive groups:

Answer. 3NF



2. Which forms has a relation that possesses data about an individual entity:

Answer. 4NF



3. Suppose we wish to find the ID's of the employees that are managed by people who are managed by the employee with ID 123. Here are two possible queries: I.SELECT ee.empID FROM Emps ee, Emps ff WHERE ee.mgrID = ff.empID AND ff.mgrID = 123; II.SELECT empID FROM Emps WHERE mgrID IN(SELECT empID FROM Emps WHERE mgrID = 123); Which, if any, of the two queries above will correctly (in SQL2) get the desired set of employee ID's?



4. Suppose relation R(A,B) currently has tuples {(1,2), (1,3), (3,4)} and relation S(B,C) currently has {(2,5), (4,6), (7,8)}. Then the number of tuples in the result of the SQL query: SELECT *FROM R NATURAL OUTER JOIN S;IS:

Answer. 2



5. Which normal form is considered adequate for normal relational database design?

Answer. 3NF



6. Relation R with an associated set of functional dependencies, F, is decomposed into BCNF. The redundancy (arising out of functional dependencies) in the resulting set of relations is



7. Which of the following has each related entity set has its own schema and there is an additional schema for the relationship set?



8. In which of the following, a separate schema is created consisting of that attribute and the primary key of the entity set.



9. Designers use which of the following to tune the performance of systems to support time-critical operations?



10. In the schema (dept name, size) we have relations total inst 2007, total inst 2008. Which dependency have lead to this relation ?