| | The correct answer is D. When a SELECT statement such as the one shown is executed, the result data set produced will contain all possible combinations of the rows found in each table specified (otherwise known as the Cartesian product). Every row in the result data set produced is a row from the first table referenced concatenated with a row from the second table referenced, concatenated in turn with a row from the third table referenced, and so on. The total number of rows found in the result data set produced is the product of the number of rows in all the individual table-references; in this case, 5 x 5 = 25.
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| | The correct answer is D. The proper way to test for a missing value (or null) is by using the NULL predicate with a WHERE clause, and answer D shows the correct way to construct such a WHERE clause. Keep in mind that NULL, zero (0), and blank ("") are not the same value. NULL is a special marker used to represent missing information, while zero and blank (empty string) are actual values that can be stored in a column to indicate a specific value (or lack thereof).
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| | The correct answer is D. When a full outer join operation is performed, rows that would have been returned by an inner join operation, together with all rows stored in both tables of the join operation that would have been eliminated by the inner join operation are returned in the result data set produced. An inner join can be thought of as the cross product of two tables, in which every row in one table that has a corresponding row in another table is combined with that row to produce a new record. When a left outer join operation is performed, rows that would have been returned by an inner join operation, together with all rows stored in the leftmost table of the join operation (i.e., the table listed first in the OUTER JOIN clause) that would have been eliminated by the inner join operation, are returned in the result data set produced. When a right outer join operation is performed, rows that would have been returned by an inner join operation, together with all rows stored in the rightmost table of the join operation (i.e., the table listed last in the OUTER JOIN clause) that would have been eliminated by the inner join operation, are returned in the result data set produced. |
| | The correct answer is C. The UPDATE statement assigns a NULL value to column C1 and NULL values are displayed as a dash (-).
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| | The correct answer is B. If the DISTINCT clause is specified with a SELECT statement, duplicate rows are removed from the final result data set returned. Two rows are considered to be duplicates of one another if the value of every column of the first row is identical to the value of the corresponding column of the second row.
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| | The correct answer is B. The FETCH FIRST clause is used to limit the number of rows that are returned to the result data set produced in response to a query. When used, the FETCH FIRST clause is followed by a positive integer value and the words ROWS ONLY. This tells the DB2 Database Manager that the user/application executing the query does not want to see more than n number of rows, regardless of how many rows might exist in the result data set that would be produced were the FETCH FIRST clause not specified.
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| | The correct answers are A and E. An inner join can be thought of as the cross product of two tables, in which every row in one table that has a corresponding row in another table is combined with that row to produce a new record. The syntax for a SELECT statement that performs an inner join operation is: SELECT [* | [Expression] <<AS> [NewColumnName]> ,...] FROM [[TableName] <<AS> [CorrelationName]> ,...] [JoinCondition] where:
| Expression | Identifies one or more columns whose values are to be returned when the SELECT statement is executed. The value specified for this option can be any valid SQL language element; however, corresponding table or view column names are commonly used. |
| NewColumnName | Identifies a new column name that is to be used in place of the corresponding table or view column name specified in the result data set returned by the SELECT statement. |
| TableName | Identifies the name(s) assigned to one or more tables that data is to be retrieved from. |
| CorrelationName | Identifies a shorthand name that can be used when referencing the table name specified in the TableName parameter. |
| JoinCondition | Identifies the condition to be used to join the tables specified. Typically, this is a WHERE clause in which the values of a column in one table are compared with the values of a similar column in another table. |
The following syntax can also be used to create a SELECT statement that performs an inner join operation: SELECT [* | [Expression] <<AS> [NewColumnName]> ,...] FROM [[TableName1] <<AS> [CorrelationName1]>] <INNER> JOIN [[TableName2] <<AS> [CorrelationName2]>] ON [JoinCondition] where:
| Expression | Identifies one or more columns whose values are to be returned when the SELECT statement is executed. The value specified for this option can be any valid SQL language element; however, corresponding table or view column names are commonly used. |
| NewColumnName | Identifies a new column name to be used in place of the corresponding table or view column name specified in the result data set returned by the SELECT statement. |
| TableName1 | Identifies the name assigned to the first table data is to be retrieved from. |
| CorrelationName1 | Identifies a shorthand name that can be used when referencing the leftmost table of the join operation. |
| TableName2 | Identifies the name assigned to the second table data is to be retrieved from. |
| CorrelationName2 | Identifies a shorthand name that can be used when referencing the rightmost table of the join operation. |
| JoinCondition | Identifies the condition to be used to join the two tables specified.
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| | The correct answer is C. When the EXCEPT set operator is used, the result data sets produced by each individual query are combined, all duplicate rows found are eliminated, and all records found in the first result data set that have a corresponding record in the second result data set are eliminated, leaving just the records that are not found in both result data sets. When the UNION set operator is used, the result data sets produced by each individual query are combined and all duplicate rows are eliminated; when the INTERSECT set operator is used, the result data sets produced by each individual query are combined, all duplicate rows found are eliminated, and all records found in the first result data set that do not have a corresponding record in the second result data set are eliminated, leaving just the records that are found in both result data sets; and MERGE is not a set operator. |
| | The correct answer is C. When a right outer join operation is performed, rows that would have been returned by an inner join operation, together with all rows stored in the rightmost table of the join operation (i.e., the table listed last in the OUTER JOIN clause) that would have been eliminated by the inner join operation are returned in the result data set produced. In this case, we want to see all records found in the POINTS table, along with any corresponding records found in the NAMES table, so a right outer join is the appropriate join operation to use.
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| | The correct answer is A. The pattern of characters specified with the LIKE clause of a SELECT statement can consist of regular alphanumeric characters and/or special metacharacters that are interpreted as follows: · The underscore character (_) is treated as a wild card character that stands for any single alphanumeric character. · The percent character (%) is treated as a wild card character that stands for any sequence of alphanumeric characters. |
| | The correct answer is D. When the UNION ALL set operator is used, the result data sets produced by each individual query are combined; all duplicate rows found are retained. Thus with this example, the results of both tables are combined (6 rows + 6 rows = 12 rows) and the duplicate rows for "Jagger, Mick", "Richards, Keith", and "Watts, Charlie" are retained. Had the UNION set operator been used instead, the result data sets produced by each individual query would have been combined, all duplicate rows would have been eliminated, and the answer would have been 9 (12 - 3 = 9 rows).
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| | The correct answer is C. Data is stored in a table in no particular order, and unless otherwise specified, a query only returns data in the order in which it is found. The ORDER BY clause is used to tell the DB2 Database Manager how to sort and order the rows that are to be returned in a result data set produced in response to a query. When specified, the ORDER BY clause is followed by the name of one or more column(s) whose data values are to be sorted and a keyword that indicates the desired sort order. If the keyword ASC follows the column's name, ascending order is used, and if the keyword DESC follows the column name, descending order is used. If no keyword is specified, ascending order is used by default.
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| | The correct answer is B. The subselect produces a result data set that contains hire year and salary information for each employee whose salary is greater than $30,000.00. The GROUP BY clause is used to tell the DB2 Database Manager how to organize rows of data returned in the result data set produced in response to a query. (The GROUP BY clause specifies an intermediate result table consisting of a group of rows.) In this example, the GROUP BY clause tells the outer SELECT to calculate and group average salary information by hire year.
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| | The correct answers are B and C. The HAVING clause is used to apply further selection criteria to columns that are referenced in a GROUP BY clause. This clause behaves like the WHERE clause, except that it refers to data that has already been grouped by a GROUP BY clause (the HAVING clause is used to tell the DB2 Database Manager how to select the rows that are to be returned in a result data set from rows that have already been grouped.) And like the WHERE clause, the HAVING clause is followed by a search condition that acts as a simple test that, when applied to a row of data, will evaluate to TRUE, FALSE, or Unknown.
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| | The correct answer is B. There is no such thing as a RIGHT INNER JOIN or a LEFT INNER JOIN so the statements shown in Answers A and D are invalid. Because we want to get employee records for employees who do not have a manager and because the EMPLOYEE table is listed before the OUTER JOIN clause, the LEFT OUTER JOIN is the correct join to use. |
| | The correct answer is C. One efficient and concise way to display coded values in a readable format is to use one or more CASE expressions in the selection list of a query. Each CASE operation evaluates a specified expression and supplies a different value, depending on whether a certain condition is met. A CASE expression can take one of two forms: simple or searched. The CASE statement presented in the question is a searched CASE expression; in this example, if the INSTRUMENT column contains the value '01', the word 'HARMONICA' is returned, if the INSTRUMENT column contains the value '02', the word 'GUITAR' is returned, if the INSTRUMENT column contains the value '03', the word 'DRUMS' is returned, and if the INSTRUMENT column contains any other value, the word 'UNKNOWN' is returned.
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| | The correct answer is B . When the results of a query, or subselect, are used to provide values for one or more columns identified in the column name list provided for an UPDATE statement, the values retrieved from one base table or view are used to modify values stored in another. The number of values returned by the subselect must match the number of columns provided in the column name list specified, and only one record can be returned.
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| | The correct answer is D. Because the EMPID column in each table was defined in such a way that it does not allow null values, a non-null value must be provided for this column any time data is inserted into either table. The INSERT statement shown in answer D does not provide a value for the EMPID column of the CURRENT_EMPLOYEES table, so the statement will fail.
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| | The correct answer is B. The DELETE statement is used to remove specific records from a table (the DROP statement completely destroys the table object), and the correct syntax for the DELETE statement is DELETE FROM [TableName] …
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| | The correct answer is A. The ORDER BY clause is used to tell the DB2 Database Manager how to sort and order the rows that are to be returned in a result data set produced in response to a query. In this example, all rows containing the value “ADMIN” in the DEPT column would be listed first, followed by all rows containing the value “PRODUCTION”, followed by all rows containing the value “SALES”. |
| | The correct answer is A. Delete operations can be conducted in one of two ways: as searched delete operations or as positioned delete operations. To perform a positioned delete, a cursor must first be created, opened, and positioned on the row to be deleted. Then, the DELETE statement used to remove the row must contain a WHERE CURRENT OF [CursorName] clause (CursorName identifies the cursor being used). Because of their added complexity, positioned delete operations are typically performed by embedded SQL applications.
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| | The correct answer is B. Common table expressions are mechanisms that are used to construct local temporary tables that reside in memory and only exist for the life of the SQL statement that defines them. The syntax used to construct a common table expression is: WITH [TableName]<([ColumnName] ,...])> AS ([SELECTStatement]) where:
| TableName | Specifies the name that is to be assigned to the temporary table to be created. |
| ColumnName | Specifies the name(s) to be assigned to one or more columns that are to be included in the temporary table to be created. Each column name specified must be unique and unqualified; if no column names are specified, the names derived from the result data set produced by the SELECT statement specified will be used. If a list of column names is specified, the number of column names provided must match the number of columns that will be returned by the SELECT statement used to create the temporary table. If a common table expression is recursive, or if the result data set produced by the SELECT statement specified contains duplicate column names, column names must be specified. |
| SELECTStatement | Identifies a SELECT SQL statement that, when executed, will produce the data values to be added to the column(s) in the temporary table to be created. |
So in this example, all of the data stored in table TAB1, with the exception of the record "150 - def" is copied to a common table named SUBSET, and then a query is run against this common table. |
| | The correct answer is C. Since we are looking for values in the PERSON column of TABLE1 that have a matching value in the ID column of TABLE2, the statement shown in Answer C is the only statement that is correct. (The SQL statements shown in Answers B and D are incorrect because there is no PERSON column in TABLE2; the statement shown in Answer A is incorrect because it is looking for values that match those in the ID column in TABLE1, not the PERSON column.)
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| | The correct answer is C. When a right outer join operation is performed, rows that would have been returned by an inner join operation, together with all rows stored in the rightmost table of the join operation (i.e., the table listed last in the OUTER JOIN clause) that would have been eliminated by the inner join operation are returned in the result data set produced. In this case, we want to see all records found in the POINTS table, along with any corresponding records found in the NAMES table, so a right outer join is the appropriate join operation to use. |
| | The correct answer is B. COUNT(empno) together with GROUP BY deptname displays the total number of employees in each department; SELECT deptname displays the corresponding department name for each department ID, and ORDER BY 2 DESC sorts the data by employee count (which is column 2) from greatest to least.
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| | The correct answer is D. Because the EMPID column was defined in such a way that it does not allow null values, a non-null value must be provided for this column anytime data is inserted into either table. The INSERT statement shown in Answer D does not provide a value for the EMPID column of the CURRENT_EMPLOYEES table, so the statement will fail.
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| | The correct answer is D. Because ‘NULL’ is treated as a string instead of a NULL value, the SQL statements shown in Answers A and C would not set the STATUS to NULL; the statement shown in Answer B is invalid because the SET keyword is only used once in the UPDATE statement. Therefore, statement D is the only UPDATE statement shown that will accomplish the desired task.
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| | The correct answer is A. The IN predicate is used to define a comparison relationship in which a value is checked to see whether or not it matches a value in a finite set of values. This finite set of values can consist of one or more literal values coded directly in the SELECT statement, or it can be composed of the non-null values found in the result data set generated by a subquery. So in this example, the non-null values that appear in the result data set produced by the subquery are the values 1 and 2, and the only row in TAB1 that has a matching value in COL1 is the row with the value 1 in it.
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| | The correct answer is D. Data is stored in a table in no particular order, and unless otherwise specified (with an ORDER BY clause), a query only returns data in the order in which it is found.
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| | The correct answer is C. When the UNION set operator is used, the result data sets produced by each individual query are combined and all duplicate rows are eliminated. Thus with this example, the results of both tables are combined (6 rows + 6 rows = 12 rows) and the duplicate rows for Jagger, Mick and Richards, Keith are removed (12 – 2 = 10 rows). So 10 rows are returned.
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| | The correct answer is C. A transaction (also known as a unit of work) is a sequence of one or more SQL operations grouped together as a single unit, usually within an application process. A given transaction can perform any number of SQL operations-from a single operation to many hundreds or even thousands, depending on what is considered a "single step" within your business logic. The initiation and termination of a single transaction defines points of data consistency within a database; either the effects of all operations performed within a transaction are applied to the database and made permanent (committed), or the effects of all operations performed are backed out (rolled back) and the database is returned to the state it was in before the transaction was initiated. In most cases, transactions are initiated the first time an executable SQL statement is executed after a connection to a database has been made or immediately after a preexisting transaction has been terminated. Once initiated, transactions can be implicitly terminated using a feature known as "automatic commit" (in this case, each executable SQL statement is treated as a single transaction, and any changes made by that statement are applied to the database if the statement executes successfully or discarded if the statement fails) or they can be explicitly terminated by executing the COMMIT or the ROLLBACK SQL statement.
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| | The correct answer is C. DB2 uses a mechanism known as a savepoint to allow an application to break the work being performed by a single large transaction into one or more subsets. Once created, a savepoint can be used in conjunction with a special form of the ROLLBACK SQL statement to return a database to the state it was in at the point in time a particular savepoint was created. The syntax for this form of the ROLLBACK statement is: ROLLBACK <WORK> TO SAVEPOINT <[ SavepointName]> where:
| SavepointName | Identifies the name assigned to the savepoint that indicates the point in time that operations performed against the database are to be rolled back (backed out) to. |
So, in this example, every operation performed between the time savepoint S1 was created and the ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT statement was executed was undone.
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| | The correct answer is C. When a cursor that has been declared with the WITH HOLD option specified (as in the example shown) is opened, it will remain open across transaction boundaries until it is explicitly closed; otherwise, it will be implicitly closed when the transaction that opens it is terminated. In this example, the cursor is opened, the first three rows are fetched from it, the transaction is committed (but the cursor is not closed), another row is fetched from it, and then the cursor is closed. Thus, the last value obtained will be: TAB1 --------------- COL1 COL2 ---- --- D 40 |
| | The correct answer is A. The CALL statement is used to invoke a stored procedure, so answer D is wrong; because a stored procedure cannot be invoked using its specific name, answer B is wrong; and since SALES is a character string value that is being passed to the procedure, it must be enclosed in single quotes. Therefore, answer C is wrong.
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| | The correct answers are A and B. How a user-defined function is invoked depends a lot on what it has been designed to do; scalar user-defined functions can be invoked as an expression in the select list of a query while table and row functions must be referenced by the FROM clause. In because the user-defined function used in this example is a scalar function that only returns a single value, answer B is the correct way to call it. A scalar function can also be invoked by executing a VALUES statement that looks something like the one shown in answer A.
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| | The correct answer is A. In XQuery, expressions are the main building blocks of a query. Expressions can be nested and form the body of a query. A query can also have a prolog that contains a series of declarations that define the processing environment for the query. Thus, if you wanted to retrieve customer names for all customers who reside in North Carolina from XML documents stored in the CUSTINFO column of a table named CUSTOMER (assuming this table has been populated with the INSERT statement we looked at earlier), you could do so by executing an XQuery expression that looks something like this: XQUERY declare default element namespace "http://custrecord.dat"; for $info in db2-fn:xmlcolumn('CUSTOMER.CUSTINFO')/customerinfowhere $info/addr/state-prov="North Carolina" return $info/name And when this XQuery expression is executed from the Command Line Processor, it should return information that looks like this (again, assuming this table has been populated with the INSERT statement we looked at earlier): 1 ------------------------------ <name xmlns="http://custrecord.dat">John Doe</name> If you wanted to remove the XML tags and just return the customer name, you could do so by executing an XQuery expression that looks like this instead: XQUERY declare default element namespace "http://custrecord.dat"; for $info in db2-fn:xmlcolumn('CUSTOMER.CUSTINFO')/customerinfowhere $info/addr/state-prov="North Carolina" return $info/name/text() Now, when the XQuery expression is executed from the Command Line Processor, it should return information that looks like this: 1 ------- John Doe |
| | The correct answer is D. NUMBER, INTERVAL, and BYTE are not valid DB2 data types. The terms DECIMAL, DEC, NUMERIC, and NUM are used to denote the decimal data type. The decimal data type is used to store numeric values that contain both whole and fractional parts, separated by a decimal point. The exact location of the decimal point is determined by the precision and the scale of the value (the scale is the number of digits used by the fractional part). The maximum precision allowed for decimal values is 31 digits, and the corresponding scale must be a positive number less than the precision of the number. If no precision or scale is specified, a scale of 5 and a precision of 0 is used by default - DECIMAL(5,0).
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| | The correct answer is C. The XML data type is used to store XML documents in their native format. The amount of storage space set aside to store an XML document varies and is determined in part, by the size and characteristics of the XML document being stored. The integer data type is used to store numeric values that have a precision of 10 digits. The range for integer values is -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647, and 4 bytes of storage space is required for every integer value stored. The terms INTEGER and INT are used to denote the integer data type. The fixed-length character string data type is used to store character string values that are between 1 and 254 characters in length. The amount of storage space needed to store a fixed-length character string value can be determined by solving the following equation: (Number of characters x 1) = Bytes required. (A fixed amount of storage space is allocated, even if all of the space allocated is not needed-short strings are padded with blanks.) The terms CHARACTER and CHAR are used to denote the fixed-length character string data type. The double-precision floating-point data type is used to store a 64-bit approximation of a real number. This number can be zero, or it can fall within the range -1.79769E+308 to -2.225E-307 or 2.225E-307 to 1.79769E+308. Each double-precision floating-point value can be up to 53 digits in length, and 8 bytes of storage space is required for every value stored. The terms DOUBLE, DOUBLE PRECISION, and FLOAT are used to denote the double-precision floating-point data type.
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| | The correct answer is A. The decimal data type is used to store numeric values that contain both whole and fractional parts, separated by a decimal point. The terms DECIMAL, DEC, NUMERIC, and NUM are used to denote the decimal data type. Since currency values contain both whole and fractional parts, the decimal data type is the best choice to base a userdefined data type on. And to create a distinct data type named CURRENCY that can be used to store numeric data you would execute a CREATE DISTINCT TYPE SQL statement that looks like the one shown in Answer A.
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| | The correct answer is B. The character large object (CLOB) data type is used to store single-byte character data. The binary large object (BLOB) data type is used to store binary data; the double-byte character large object (DBCLOB) data type is used to store double-byte character data; and the fixed-length double-byte character string (GRAPHIC) data type is used to store double-byte character data strings. |
| | The correct answer is D. The data type assigned to an identity column must be a numeric data type with a scale of 0; therefore, the only data types that can be assigned to an identity column are: SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, DECIMAL/NUMERIC, or a user-defined data type that is based on one of these data types.
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| | The correct answer is C. The XMLPARSE function parses a character string and returns an XML value; the character string expression to be parsed must evaluate to a well-formed XML document that conforms to XML 1.0, as modified by the XML Namespaces recommendation. Answers A, B, and D are character strings that are comprised of a starting tag, an optional value, and a corresponding ending tag. As a result, these strings can be converted into a well-formed, but small, XML documents.
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| | The correct answers are C and E. At a minimum, when a new table is created, a table name, one or more column names, and corresponding column data types must be specified. Primary keys, constraints (NOT NULL, default, check, unique, referential integrity, and informational), and table space information is optional and is not required. |
| | The correct answer is D. A unique index, a check constraint, and a referential constraint place restrictions on what can and cannot be stored in the column(s) they are associated with. A default constraint, however, is used to provide a default value for a particular column if no data is provided for that column when data is inserted into a table; if a value is provided for the column, the default value is ignored.
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| | The correct answers are D and E. When the CREATE TABLE … LIKE … statement is executed, each column of the table that is created will have exactly the same name, data type and nullability characteristic as the columns of the source table used to create the new table. Furthermore, if the EXCLUDING COLUMN DEFAULTS option is not specified (which is the case in this example), all column defaults will be copied as well. However, the new table will not contain any unique constraints, foreign key constraints, triggers, or indexes that exist in the original.
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| | The correct answer is A. The Insert Rule for a referential constraint guarantees that a value can never be inserted into the foreign key of a child table unless a matching value can be found in the corresponding parent key of the associated parent table. Any attempt to insert records into a child table that violates this rule will result in an error, and the insert operation will fail. The Insert Rule for a referential constraint is implicitly created when the referential constraint itself is created. In this example, the EMPID column of table TAB2 is a foreign key (in a child table) that references the ID column (the parent key) of table TAB1 (the parent table). Therefore, because of the Insert Rule, values cannot be added to the EMPID column of table TAB2 that do not already exist in the ID column of table TAB1.
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| | The correct answer is B. A unique constraint can be used to ensure that the value(s) assigned to one or more columns when a record is added to a base table are always unique; once a unique constraint has been defined for one or more columns, any operation that attempts toplace duplicate values in those columns will fail. Although a unique, system-required index is used to enforce a unique constraint, there is a distinction between defining a unique constraint and creating a unique index; even though both enforce uniqueness, a unique index allows NULL values and generally cannot be used in a referential constraint. A unique constraint on the other hand, does not allow NULL values and can be referenced in a foreign key specification. (The value "NULL" means a column's value is undefined and distinct from any other value, including other NULL values). A check constraint (also known as a table check constraint) can be used to ensure that a particular column in a base table is never assigned an unacceptable value-once a check constraint has been defined for a column, any operation that attempts to place a value in that column that does not meet specific criteria will fail. The default constraint can be used to ensure that a particular column in a base table is assigned a predefined value (unless that value is overridden) each time a record is added to the table. The predefined value provided could be null (if the NOT NULL constraint has not been defined for the column), a user-supplied value compatible with the column's data type, or a value furnished by the DB2 Database Manager. Unlike other constraints, informational constraints are not enforced during insert and update processing. However, the DB2 SQL optimizer will evaluate information provided by an informational constraint when considering the best access plan to use to resolve a query. As a result, an informational constraint may result in better query performance even though the constraint itself will not be used to validate data entry/modification.
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| | The correct answer is C. A check constraint is used to ensure that a particular column in a base table is never assigned an unacceptable value-once a check constraint has been defined for a column, any operation that attempts to place a value in that column that does not meet specific criteria will fail. Check constraints are comprised of one or more predicates that collectively are known as the check condition. This check condition is compared with the data value provided and the result of this comparison is returned as the value TRUE, FALSE, or Unknown. If the check constraint returns the value TRUE, the value is acceptable, so it is added to the database. If, on the other hand, the check constraint returns the value FALSE or Unknown, the operation attempting to place the value in the database fails, and all changes made by that operation are backed out. In this example, the check constraint CST1 defined for table TAB1 only allows the values 1, 2, or 3 to be entered into column COL1. The INSERT statement shown in Answer C is the only INSERT statement that has a valid value specified for column COL1.
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| | The correct answer is A. The ON DELETE RESTRICT ensures that whenever a delete operation is performed on the parent table of a referential constraint, the value for the foreign key of each row in the child table will have the same matching value in the parent key of the parent table that it had before the delete operation was performed. Therefore, in this example no row will be deleted from the MAKE because two rows exists in the MODEL table that references the row the DELETE statement is trying to remove. Had the ON DELETE CASCADE definition been used instead, the delete operation would have succeeded and the tables would have looked like this:
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| | The correct answer is D. A unique index allows one and only one NULL value; the value "NULL" means a column's value is undefined and distinct from any other value. The remaining characteristics are true for unique indexes.
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| | The correct answer is D. In this example, the statement "INSERT INTO employee VALUES (DEFAULT, 'Smith', 10, '11/18/2004', 60250.00)" will fail because the hire date and the salary specified violates check constraint CST1 - YEAR(hiredate) > 2006 OR salary > 60500)
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| | The correct answer is B. To create a referential constraint, you define a primary key, using one or more columns in the parent table, and you define a foreign key for one or more corresponding columns in the child table that reference the parent table's primary key. (The list of column names in the foreign key clause must be identical to the list of column names specified in the primary key OR a unique constraint for the columns in the parent table that are referenced by the foreign key in the child must exist in order for a referential constraint to be successfully created.)
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| | The correct answer is B. The value assigned to the CURRENT SCHEMA special register is not persistent across database restarts. Therefore, if you assign a value to the CURRENT SCHEMA special register, disconnect from the database, and reconnect, the CURRENT SCHEMA special register will contain your authentication ID - not the value you assigned it earlier.
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| | The correct answer is D. A view is a named specification of a result table that is populated whenever the view is referenced in an SQL statement. (Each time a view is referenced, a query is executed and the results are retrieved from the underlying table and returned in a table-like format.) Like base tables, views can be thought of as having columns and rows. And in most cases, data can be retrieved from a view the same way it can be retrieved from a table.
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| | The correct answer is C. If the WITH LOCAL CHECK OPTION clause of with the CREATE VIEW SQL statement is specified, insert and update operations performed against the view that is created are validated to ensure that all rows being inserted into or updated in the base table the view refers to conform to the view's definition (otherwise, the insert/update operation will fail). So what exactly does this mean? Suppose a view was created using the following CREATE VIEW statement: CREATE VIEW priority_orders AS SELECT * FROM orders WHERE response_time < 4 WITH LOCAL CHECK OPTION Now, suppose a user tries to insert a record into this view that has a RESPONSE_TIME value of 6. The insert operation will fail because the record violates the view's definition. Had the view not been created with the WITH LOCAL CHECK OPTION clause, the insert operation would have been successful, even though the new record would not be visible to the view that was used to add it. Because VIEW1 was created using a SELECT statement that only references rows that have a value less than 100 in COL1 and because VIEW1 was created with the WITH LOCAL CHECK OPTION specified, each value inserted into COL1 (using VIEW1) must be less than 100. In addition, because COL2 was defined using a character data type, all values inserted into COL2 must be enclosed in single quotes. The INSERT statements shown in Answers B and D will fail because the value to be assigned to COL1 exceeds 100; the INSERT statement shown in Answer A will fail because the value "abc" is not enclosed in single quotation marks.
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| | The correct answer is C. Whenever an insert operation, an update operation, or a delete operation is performed against the subject table or view, a trigger can be activated (fired).
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| | The correct answer is D. Triggers are only fired if the trigger event they have been designed to watch for takes place against the subject table they are designed to interact with. In this example, no UPDATE trigger was defined; therefore, no triggers are fired when the sales table is updated. Trigger TRIGGER_C will be fired anytime a delete operation is performed against the SALES table and triggers TRIGGER_A and TRIGGER_B will be fired in the order they were created whenever an insert operation is performed against the SALES table. Trigger TRIGGER_A is designed to calculate a sales commission for an invoice based on the sale amount; trigger TRIGGER_B is designed to assign a value to the BILL_DATE column that is 30 days from today; and trigger TRIGGER_C is designed to display an error message whenever anyone tries to delete records from the SALES table. |
| | The correct answer is A. The XML data type can be used to store well-formed XML documents in their native format. A table can contain any number of XML columns; however each XML column used has the following restrictions: · It cannot be part of any index except an XML index. · It cannot be included as a column of a primary key or unique constraint. · It cannot be a foreign key of a referential constraint. · It cannot have a specified default value or a WITH DEFAULT clause-if the column is nullable, the default value for the column is the null value. · It cannot be used in a table with a distribution key. · It cannot be used in range-clustered or range-partitioned tables. In addition, XML columns can only be referenced in a check constraint if the check constraint contains the VALIDATED predicate. (The VALIDATED predicate checks to see if an XML value has been validated using the XMLVALIDATE() function. The XMLVALIDATE() function returns a copy of the input XML value, augmented with information obtained from XML schema validation, including default values and type annotations. If the value of the column is null, the result of the VALIDATED predicate is unknown; otherwise, the result is either TRUE or FALSE.)
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| | The correct answer is B. The SALES table in the example is partitioned such that each quarter's data is stored in a different data partition, and each partition resides in a different table space. Advantages of using table partitioning include: · Easy roll-in and roll-out of data. Rolling in partitioned table data allows a new range to be easily incorporated into a partitioned table as an additional data partition. Rolling out partitioned table data allows you to easily separate ranges of data from a partitioned table for subsequent purging or archiving. Data can be quickly rolled in and out by using the ATTACH PARTITION and DETACH PARTITION clauses of the ALTER TABLE statement. · Easier administration of large tables. Table level administration becomes more flexible because administrative tasks can be performed on individual data partitions. Such tasks include: detaching and reattaching of a data partition, backing up and restoring individual data partitions, and reorganizing individual indexes. In addition, time consuming maintenance operations can be shortened by breaking them down into a series of smaller operations. For example, backup operations can be performed at the data partition level when the each data partition is placed in separate table space. Thus, it is possible to backup one data partition of a partitioned table at a time. · Flexible index placement. With table partitioning, indexes can be placed in different table spaces allowing for more granular control of index placement. · Better query processing. When resolving queries, one or more data partitions may be automatically eliminated, based on the query predicates used. This functionality, known as Data Partition Elimination, improves the performance of many decision support queries because less data has to be analyzed before a result data set can be returned. |
| | The correct answer is C. Unlike base tables, whose descriptions and constraints are stored in the system catalog tables of the database to which they belong, declared temporary tables are not persistent and can only be used by the application that creates them-and only for the life of the application. (Once the application that created the global temporary table is terminated, any records in the table are deleted and the table itself is destroyed.) When the application that creates a declared temporary table terminates, the rows of the table are deleted, and the definition of the table is dropped. (However, data stored in a temporary table can exist across transaction boundaries.) Another significant difference between the two centers around naming conventions: base table names must be unique within a schema, but because each application that defines a declared temporary table has its own instance of that table, it is possible for many applications to create declared temporary tables that have the same name. And where base tables are created with the CREATE TABLE SQL statement, declared temporary tables are created with the DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE statement. |
