Solution Manual For Fundamentals Of Database Systems, 6th Edition

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Chapter 1: Databases and Database Users1CHAPTER 1: DATABASES AND DATABASE USERSAnswers to Selected Exercises1.8-Identify some informal queries and update operations that you would expect to apply tothe database shown in Figure 1.2.Answer:(a) (Query) List the names of all students majoring in Computer Science.(b) (Query) What are the prerequisites of the Database course?.(c) (Query) Retrieve the transcript of Smith. This is a list of <CourseName,SectionIdentifier, Semester, Year, Grade> for each course section that Smith hascompleted.(d) (Update) Insert a new student in the database whose Name=Jackson,StudentNumber=23, Class=1 (freshman), and Major=MATH.(e) (Update) Change the grade that Smith received in Intro to Computer Science section119 to B.1.9-What is the difference between controlled and uncontrolled redundancy?Answer:Redundancy is when the same fact is stored multiple times in several places in a database.For example, in Figure 1.5(a) the fact that the name of the student with StudentNumber=8 isBrown is stored multiple times. Redundancy is controlled when the DBMS ensures thatmultiple copies of the same data are consistent; for example, if a new record withStudentNumber=8 is stored in the database of Figure 1.5(a), the DBMS will ensure thatStudentName=Smith in that record. If the DBMS has no control over this, we haveuncontrolled redundancy.1.10-Specify all the relationships among the records of the database shown in Figure 1.2.Answer:(a) Each SECTION record is related to a COURSE record.(b) Each GRADE_REPORT record is related to one STUDENT record and one SECTIONrecord.(c) Each PREREQUISITE record relates two COURSE records: one in the role of a courseand the other in the role of a prerequisite to that course.1.11-Give some additional views that may be needed by other user groups for the databaseshown in Figure 1.2.Answer:(a) A view that groups all the students who took each section and gives each student'sgrade. This may be useful for printing the grade report for each section for the

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