MU Information Technology (Semester 6)
Database Technologies
December 2012
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 Replication in Database.
5 M
1 (b) Explain BCNF with Example.
5 M
1 (c) Compare Data mart and Data Warehouse.
5 M
1 (d) Explain Nested Relations.
5 M

2 (a) Suppose that we decompose the schema
R = (A, B, C, D, E) into (A, B, C) and
(A, D, E)Show that this decomposition is a lossless join decomposition if the following set F of functional dependencies hold:
A ? BC
CD ? E
B ? D
E ? A
10 M
2 (b) What are the main architectures used for building parallel Databases? Give advantages and disadvantages of each.
10 M

3 (a) Explain Security and Authorization in SQL.
10 M
3 (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

4 (a) Explain design and implementation issues in Mobile Database.
10 M
4 (b) What is fragmentation? Explain different types of fragmentation in distributed database.
10 M

5 (a) Explain object identity and type constructors with example.
10 M
5 (b) Define Data warehouse. Explain architecture of data warehouse with suitable block diagram.
10 M

6 (a) Consider a data warehouse for hospital, where there are three dimensions:
(i) Doctor (ii) Patient (iii) Time
and two measures-
(i) Count (ii) Charges
where charges is the fee that doctor charges a patient for visit.
Using the above example, describe the following OLAP operations:
(i) Slice (ii) Dice (iii) Rollup (iv) Drilldown
10 M
6 (b) Explain various Extended features of ER Diagram such as aggregation,Generalization and Specialization with suitable examples.
10 M

Write short notes on (any two)
7 (a) Spatial Databases.
10 M
7 (b) OLAP Servers.
10 M
7 (c) ODL Schema.
10 M
7 (d) Comparison between OLTP and OLAP.
10 M



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