CSE103 exam

(Answer is in bold)

  • The definition of Information System

  • foreign key constraint

  • odbc (c refers to connectivity)

  • dbms is interface between database and program (From the book "The design of DBMS must take into account the interface between the DBMS and operating system")

  • IBM's IMS uses hierarchical DBMS

  • referential integrity rule applies to foreign keys

  • QBE(query by example)

  • Count(*)

  • grouped query (GROUP BY)

  • restricting groupings (HAVING clause)

  • nested query

  • BCNF: if and only if, every determinant is a candiate key

  • create schema, domain, table, view (DDL)

  • grant (revoke cascade|restrict )

  • UML(multiplicity of relation)

  • Armstrong’s axiom

  • update anomaly

  • UK’s 1998 Data Protection Act (people cannot erase the data)

  • data types

  • create database is normalised

  • In MS access, input mask is used for data entry

  • normalisation is a data validation technique

  • UML notation, like natural join, selection, projection, etc.

  • first develop DB model then process normalization (ch 17.2)

  • (jdbc) executeQuery, what does rs.next() do? Moves the cursor froward one row from its current position

// answer source: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/ResultSet.html#next%28%29
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery();

rs. next()

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