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Task 1 The Library of a school has just been filed with new books. The the books in shelves and those on loan. A Reader in this college may have more than one book out on loan. Apart from the Reader ID (identity), a Reader may also have the following information of obvious meaning: surname, first name, title, address, town, sex, and a Book: book ID, title, Author, publisher and dateofpub (i.e. date of publication). library attendant has a major problem keeping track of (a) In your answer booklet, deseribe these tables in terms of relation and attribute names. (b) From the above tables we cannot say who has which book on loan. Some possibilitics include: adding fields to table, Book or table, Reader, or creating a third table called Loan. Express the loan relation table as a table having only FOUR FIELDS, two of which are the date due and date taken fields. (c) Create the table below using the DBMS software selected to complete the ficlds for Loan. Save and print a copy of cach table. READER BOOK LOAN Field Enumera -ted Field Data Field Data Field size Field Data type Field size type size type values bookID Title Author ReaderID Text Text 20 Text Text Date Date 9. Surname Text 20 Text Text Firstname Text 20 20 Datepub Date 20 Date Date Date Sex Text F,M Publisher Text

Task 1 The Library of a school has just been filed with new books. The the books in shelves and those on loan. A Reader in this college may have more than one book out on loan. Apart from the Reader ID (identity), a Reader may also have the following information of obvious meaning: surname, first name, title, address, town, sex, and a Book: book ID, title, Author, publisher and dateofpub (i.e. date of publication). library attendant has a major problem keeping track of (a) In your answer booklet, deseribe these tables in terms of relation and attribute names. (b) From the above tables we cannot say who has which book on loan. Some possibilitics include: adding fields to table, Book or table, Reader, or creating a third table called Loan. Express the loan relation table as a table having only FOUR FIELDS, two of which are the date due and date taken fields. (c) Create the table below using the DBMS software selected to complete the ficlds for Loan. Save and print a copy of cach table. READER BOOK LOAN Field Enumera -ted Field Data Field Data Field size Field Data type Field size type size type values bookID Title Author ReaderID Text Text 20 Text Text Date Date 9. Surname Text 20 Text Text Firstname Text 20 20 Datepub Date 20 Date Date Date Sex Text F,M Publisher Text

Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
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Task 1 The Library of a school has just been filled with new books. The library attendant has a major problem keeping track of the books in shelves and those on loan. A Reader in this college may have more than one book out on loan. Apart from the Reader ID (identity), a Reader may also have the following information of obvious meaning: surname, first name. title, address, town, sex, and a Book: book ID, title, Author, publisher and dateofpub (i.e. date of publication). (a) In your answer booklet, describe these tables in terms of relation and attribute names. (b) From the above tables we cannot say who has which book on loan. Somc possibilitics include: adding fields to table, Book or table, Reader, or creating a third table called Loan. Express the loan relation table as a table having only FOUR FIELDS, two of which are the date due and date taken fields. (c) Create the table below using the DBMS softwarc selected to complete the ficlds for Loan. Save and print a copy of cach table. READER BOOK LOAN Field Enumera -ted Field Data Field Data Field size Field Data type Field size type size type values ReaderID Surname bookID Title Author 9| Text Text Text Text Date Date Text 16 Text 20 20 Text 20 20 Datepub Date Publisher Text Firstname Text Date Date Date Sex Text F,M 20 (d) Create an Entity-Relationship diagram for the three entities showing the correct cardinalities. Save and print a copy. (e) Populate the tables with the following data. Save and print a copy of each table. ВOOK booklD lib001 lib002 lib003 lib004 title author dateofpub 8/6/2013 neba printers 7/3/2013 neba printers 4/6/2011 emengu 11/7/2012 emengu 4/10/2013 macmillan 8/7/2012 emengu 2/9/2012 Anucam 10/13/2010 neba printers 7/7/2013 two brothers 2/6/2013 Oxford publisher Naty Naty Tazi Advanced computingTazi Cinlair Cinclair Mbong Newton Nfor Nabot csc7 ict7 csc5 lib005 Physical geo Econs geo lib006 lib007 College maths Advance physics lib009 principe of physics lib010 College Maths lib008
Transcribed Image Text:Task 1 The Library of a school has just been filled with new books. The library attendant has a major problem keeping track of the books in shelves and those on loan. A Reader in this college may have more than one book out on loan. Apart from the Reader ID (identity), a Reader may also have the following information of obvious meaning: surname, first name. title, address, town, sex, and a Book: book ID, title, Author, publisher and dateofpub (i.e. date of publication). (a) In your answer booklet, describe these tables in terms of relation and attribute names. (b) From the above tables we cannot say who has which book on loan. Somc possibilitics include: adding fields to table, Book or table, Reader, or creating a third table called Loan. Express the loan relation table as a table having only FOUR FIELDS, two of which are the date due and date taken fields. (c) Create the table below using the DBMS softwarc selected to complete the ficlds for Loan. Save and print a copy of cach table. READER BOOK LOAN Field Enumera -ted Field Data Field Data Field size Field Data type Field size type size type values ReaderID Surname bookID Title Author 9| Text Text Text Text Date Date Text 16 Text 20 20 Text 20 20 Datepub Date Publisher Text Firstname Text Date Date Date Sex Text F,M 20 (d) Create an Entity-Relationship diagram for the three entities showing the correct cardinalities. Save and print a copy. (e) Populate the tables with the following data. Save and print a copy of each table. ВOOK booklD lib001 lib002 lib003 lib004 title author dateofpub 8/6/2013 neba printers 7/3/2013 neba printers 4/6/2011 emengu 11/7/2012 emengu 4/10/2013 macmillan 8/7/2012 emengu 2/9/2012 Anucam 10/13/2010 neba printers 7/7/2013 two brothers 2/6/2013 Oxford publisher Naty Naty Tazi Advanced computingTazi Cinlair Cinclair Mbong Newton Nfor Nabot csc7 ict7 csc5 lib005 Physical geo Econs geo lib006 lib007 College maths Advance physics lib009 principe of physics lib010 College Maths lib008
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