Data warehousing (CS614)

Assignment # 2 (GRADED)
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Deadline Date: 08-12-2014

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Question No. 1 [10]

You are given ERD as shown below. Perform appropriate de-normalization technique to any of
the one-to-one and one-to-many relations.

ERD

Question No. 2 [10]

Consider the below given tables:

Student_ Info

Roll_No

Name

father_Name

qualification

Address

MBA_1000

Umair

Ikram

MBA

Islamabad

MBA_1001

Wasim

Maqsood

MBA

Mardan

MSC_1002

faizan

jawad

MSC

211

BS_1003

Atif

Sohail

BS

212

Roll_No

Name

father_Name

qualification

Address

MBA_1000

Umair

Ikram

MBA

Islamabad

MBA_1001

Wasim

Maqsood

MBA

Mardan

MSC_1002

faizan

jawad

MSC

211

BS_1003

Atif

Sohail

BS

212

Application_Info

Roll_No

Name

father_Name

qualification

Address

MBA_1000

Umair

Ikram

MBA

Islamabad

MBA_1001

Wasim

Maqsood

MBA

Mardan

MSC_1002

faizan

jawad

MSC

211

BS_1003

Atif

Sohail

BS

212

Appliction_ID

Roll_No

Program

Application_date

1000

MBA_1000

Master

01/01/2015

1001

MBA_1001

Master

01/01/2015

1002

MSC_1001

Master

01/01/2015

1003

BS_1001

Bachelor

01/01/2015

Suppose we need to run the below given query more frequently. But the problem is that the
given query links two tables which degrade performance. Perform the most appropriate denormalization technique to enhance the performance so that we dont need to perform join.

Select S.Roll_No, S.Name, A.Application_ID,A.Program,A. Application_date from

Student_Info S, Application_Info A where A.Roll_No= S.Roll_No