August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
893 pages
26h 48m
English
Content preview from Database Systems: Concepts, Design and Applications
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Review Questions
| 1. | What are the weaknesses of legacy RDBMSs? |
| 2. | What is object-relational database? What are its advantages and disadvantages? |
| 3. | How did an ORDBMS emerged? Discuss in detail. |
| 4. | What are the ORDBMS products available for commercial applications? |
| 5. | Compare RDBMSs with ORDBMSs. Describe an application scenario for which you would choose a RDBMS and explain the reason for choosing it. Similarly, describe an application scenario for which you would choose an ORDBMS and again explain why you have chosen it. |
| 6. | What do you mean by complex objects? List some of the complex objects that can be handled by ORDBMS. |
| 7. | What is the structured query language used in ORDBMSs? What are its standard parts? Discuss them in brief. |
| 8. | Discuss the ORDBMS ... |