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1. UNION, INTERSECT, and MINUS work properly only if relations are union-compatible, which means that the names of the relation attributes and their data types must be different.
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2. SQL supports the conditional execution of procedures (if...then...else statements) that are typically sup-ported by a programming language
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3. To remedy the lack of procedural functionality in SQL, and to provide some standardization within the many vendor offerings, the SQL-99 standard defined the use of persistent stored modules.
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4. Procedural code is executed on the database client machine.
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5. PL/SQL functions are executed in the same way as functions such as MIN and AVG.
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6. Every PL/SQL block must be given a name
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7. In Oracle, you can use the SQL*Plus command SHOW ERRORS to help you diagnose errors found in PL/SQL blocks.
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8. PL/SQL blocks have a section used to declare variables.
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9. The most useful feature of PL/SQL blocks is that they let you create code that can be named, stored, and executed by the DBMS.
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10. Automating business procedures and automatically maintaining data integrity and consistency are trivial in a modern business environment.
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11. A trigger is procedural SQL code that is automatically invoked by the RDBMS upon the occurrence of a given data manipulation event.
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12. A trigger is executed as part of the transaction that triggered it.
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13. Triggers can only be used to update table values
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14. A statement-level trigger is assumed if you omit the FOR EACH ROW keywords.
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15. Each statement inside the PL/SQL code must end with a period (“.”).
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16. To test a trigger, you should use the EXECUTE TRIGGER command.
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17. Just like database triggers, stored procedures are stored in the database.
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18. One of the major advantages of stored procedures is that they can be used to encapsulate and represent business transactions.
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19. One of the disadvantages of stored procedures is that they increase network traffic
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20. Stored procedures help reduce code duplication by means of code isolation and code sharing
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21. Stored procedures must have at least one argument.
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22. You can declare variables inside a stored procedure.
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23. Stored procedures are executed using the EXEC command.
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24. Cursors are held in a reserved memory area in the client computer.
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25. An implicit cursor is automatically created in procedural SQL when the SQL statement returns only one value.
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26. An explicit cursor must return two or more rows
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27. The NEXT command for a cursor is used to retrieve a row from the cursor and place it in the respective PL/SQL variables.
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28. Cursor-style processing involves retrieving data from the cursor, one row at a time.
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29. A stored function is another name for a stored procedure
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30. "Linked SQL" is a term used to refer to SQL statements that are contained within an application programming language such as COBOL, C++, ASP, Java, or ColdFusion.