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M.E.fM.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY/JUNE 2017.
Second Semester
Computer Science and Engineering
CP 7202 -ADVANCED DATABASES
(Common to M.E. Computer Science and Engineering (With Specialization in
Networks) and M.Tech. Information Technology)
(Regulations 2013)
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 marks
Answer ALL questions.
PART A- (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
1. Differentiate between inter and-intra query parallelism.
2. Why replication is important in distributed databases?, .
3. How is object database differentiated from relational database?
4. Define ODMG model.
5. What are the design principles of active rules?
6. Give examples of spatial relationship.
7. Mention the use of commit protocols?
8. What are the ways to retrieve the stored information from the database?
9. Differentiate structured and semi structured xml data.
10. How will you manage the biological data?
PART B - (5 x 13 = 65 marks)
11. (a) Explain the various I/O parallelism.
Or
(b) Explain in detail about how the transactions are handled in distributed
database?
12. (a) Briefly discuss about how to design an Object Oriented database? Discuss
about the standards and languages in it.
Or
(b) Explain and discuss bout the object relational features in SQL.
13. (a) Explain the syntax and semantics of Oracle and DB2 Databases.
Or
(b) Explain in detail about how the recursive queries can be specified in
SQL.
14. (a) Describe how the location and Handoff management can be performed in
mobile databases?
Or
(b) Explain the various data classification methods for data mining.
15. (a) Give details about the approaches used to store the XML documents in
database.
Or
(b) Describe Cloud storage architecture with neat diagram.
PART C - (1 x 15 = 15 marks)
16. (a) Develop any schema diagram and represent it m ODL. How do you
iterate through all the persistent classes?
Or
(b) Consider a data warehouse consists of four dimensions Date, spectator,
location and game as well as, the two measures Count' and 'Charge'. The
charge is the fare where the spectator pays watching a game on a given
Date spectator may be students, adults or Seniors. Each category having
its own charge rate. Illustrate by drawing a star schema for the data
warehouse and how many cuboids are needed to build the data cube?
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