MU Information Technology (Semester 6)
Database Technologies
December 2011
Total marks: --
Total time: --
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary


1 (a) Explain Transient and Persistent Objects.
5 M
1 (b) What are Triggers? Illustrate the cases when triggers must not be used.
5 M
1 (c) Explain and define the term Data Warehouse.
5 M
1 (d) Explain BCNF with suitable example.
5 M

2 (a) Explain design and implementation issues in Mobile Database.
10 M
2 (b) Explain with proper example nested Relation in ORDBMS.
10 M

3 (a) All electronics company have sales department Sales consider the dimensions namely
(i) Time (ii)Product (iii) Branch (iv) Location
with two measures
(i) Dollars-sold (ii) Units-sold
Design Star Schema and write DMQL for the above statement.
10 M
3 (b) Explain primary horizontal fragmentation in distributed databases.
10 M

4 (a) What are the main architectures used for building parallel databases? Give advantages and disadvantages of each.
10 M
4 (b) Explain following concepts with example:
(i) Object identity.
(ii) Type Constructors.
10 M

5 (a) Consider a data warehouse for a hospital, where there are three dimensions:
(i) Doctor (ii) Patient (iii) Time
and two measures
(i) Count (ii) Charge
where charge is the fee that the doctor charges a patient for a visit.
Using the above example describe the following OLAP operations:
(i) Slice (ii) Dice (iii) Rollup (iv) Drilldown
10 M
5 (b) Explain security and authorization in SQL.
10 M

6 (a) Explain various extended features of ER diagram such as aggregation, specialization and generalization with suitable example.
10 M
6 (b) Given a relation with eight attributes
Proj_no, Proj_name, Emp_no, Emp_name, Job_class, Charge_hrs,
Hrs_billed and Tot_charges
Normalize it upto 3rd Normal form.
10 M

Write short notes on:-
7 (a) Comparison between OLTP & OLAP.
5 M
7 (b) Two phase commit protocol.
5 M
7 (c) Spatial Database.
5 M
7 (d) Integrity Constraint.
5 M



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