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MODEL HOME WORK: #1

School: Department:CSE/IT
Course No: CSE301
Course Title: Database Management System
Class: Term: Section: Batch:
Max. Marks: 25 Date of Allotment: Date of Submission:
Part-A
Q1. Conceptually and diagrammatically describe the logical steps while executing users
request to access the database system.

Q2. Construct a E-R diagram for a hospital management system with a set of doctors
and a set of patients. With each patient,a series of various tests and examinations
are conducted. On the basis of preliminary report patients are admitted to a
particular specialty ward.

Q3. “There are a number of database models available in Database Management

System”.Why there is need of these models. Explain your answer by comparing
all the models.

Part-B
Q4. If we want to change the schema of at one level of database system without
having change the schema of next higher level , is it possible , if yes representing
using abstraction levels.

Q5. Consider an E-R diagram in which the same entity set appears several times. Why
is allowing this redundancy a bad practice that one should avoid whenever possible?

Q6. A university has many academic unit named schools. Each school is administered
by a Head of School. The school has administrative and teaching staff. A school offers
many courses. A course consists of many subjects A subject is taught to students who
have registered for a subject in a class room by a teacher. Draw the necessary E-R
diagram for the university specifying aggregation, generalization or specialization
hierarchy.