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Databases I.

Exam

Dear Students,

Here I would like to give you some important information about the exam.
Below is a list of all the exercise types that can occur in the exam.
In the exam you will get only 6 exercises.

1. Relational algebra

• You have to express a query in relational algebra for some sample data and you have to run the
query in relational algebra calculator (see Rel_alg_calculato.txt).
• You have to compute the result of some relational algebra expression in paper, like in
db1_exercise6.pdf (Exercise 3, Exercise 4)
• You have to convert a relational algebra expression into SELECT

2. SQL SELECT

• You have to write an SQL query and run it on some sample data.
• You have to convert a SELECT statement into relational algebra.

3. SQL DML statement

• You have to write an SQL DML statement (INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE) and run it on some
sample data.

4. SQL WITH statement

• You have to write an SQL query using the WITH statement and run it on some sample data.

5. DATALOG

• You have to express a query in Datalog (in paper).


• You have to convert relational algebra into Datalog and vica versa. (see Textbook 5.4.8)

6. Recursion in Datalog and in SQL

• You have to write a recursive query (WITH or CONNECT BY) and run it on some sample data.
• You have to write a recursive Datalog query (in paper).

7. Entity-Relationship models and DDL

• You will get an E-R model, and you have to convert it into relations, and you have to write the
appropriate CREATE TABLE statements with primary key and foreign key definitions.

8. PL/SQL

• You have to write a pl/sql program (function or procedure) and run it on some sample data.
9. Functional Dependencies

• Compute the closure of a set of attributes.


• Decide if a Functional Dependency follows from some other FD’s.
• Find the keys of a relation. (like Exercise 3.2.1)
• Compute a minimal basis for a set of Functional Dependencies.
• Compute the projection of a set of FD’s. (like Exercise 3.2.10)

10. Normal Forms

• Decompose a relation into relations which are in Boyce-Codd Normal Form. (like Exercise 3.3.1)
• Test if a decomposition is a Lossless Join decomposition -> Chase Test. (like Exercise 3.4.1)

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