University of Sargodha ADP/BS 2^d Semester (F-24) Examination 2025 Subiect: CS/IT/SE Paper: Database System (CMPC-5203) Time Allowed: 02:30 Hours
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University of Sargodha
ADP/BS 2^d Semester (F-24) Examination 2025
Subiect: CS/IT/SE Paper: Database System (CMPC-5203)
Time Allowed: 02:30 Hours
Maximum Marks: 40
Note:
Objective part is compulsory. Attempt any three questions from subjective part.
(Illustrate your answer with diagram where needed).
Objective Part (Compulsory)
Q.1.
Write short answers of the following in 2-3 lines cach on your answer sheet.
1.
ii.
What is data independence? Why is it important?
Differentiate between subtype and supertype.
ili.
Shortly explain referential integrity constraint.
iv.
- What are the problems caused by data redundancy in unnormalized relations?
of What is anomaly in database?
Define Aggregation.
What's meant by transitive dependere COm
vili.
What's meant by denormalization?
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Subjective Part (3*8)
Q.2/ Explain three level architecture in detail.
Q.3.
A hospital wants to maintain records of its patients, doctors, and appointments. Each doctor has an ID,
name, specialty, and contact number. Each patient has a unique ID, name, gender, and age. A patient
can make one or more appointments, and each appointment is with one doctor, on a particular date and
time. Prescriptions are issued during appointments.
) Identify entities (Patient, Doctor, Appointment, Prescription)
il) Design an ER diagram including:
• Attributes (e.g., Doctor Name, Specialty, Appointment Date)
• Relationships (e.g., "makes", "consults")
• Keys and cardinality
0.4. A company keeps a record of its employee travel reimbursements in the following table:
RecordID | EmployeelD | EmployeeName | Department | TripStartDate | TripEndDate | Destination |
ExpenseType | ExpenseAmount
i. Identify repeating groups and partial / transitive dependencies
ii. Normalize the table step-by-step to 3rd Normal Form
ili. List final relations and indicate primary/foreign keys
Q.5.
Assume the following normalized tables for a small library database:
• Books(BookID, Title, AuthorID, CategoryID, YearPublished)
• Authors(AuthorID, AuthorName)
• Categories(CategoryID, CategoryName)
• Members(MemberID, MemberName, JoinDate)
• Loans(LoaniD, BookID, MemberID, LoanDate, ReturnDate)
Write the following five SOL. queries:
ughed her names of all books borrowed by a specific member.
Find the most borrowed book in the system
sbow the number of books burowed it el cson.
List all overdue books (where Rely®Dite is null and loan is older than 15 days).
Retrieve names of authors wig have more than 3 books in the library.
Q.6.
Write a note on any of the following two:
a Open source database system
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b. Concurrency controis
c. Database indexes
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