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MODULE NAME: MODULE CODE:

DATABASES DBAS6211
DATABASES DBAS6211d

ASSESSMENT TYPE: EXAMINATION (PAPER ONLY)

TOTAL MARK ALLOCATION: 120 MARKS
TOTAL HOURS: 2 HOURS (+10 minutes reading time)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Please adhere to all instructions in the assessment booklet.
2. Independent work is required.
3. Five minutes per hour of the assessment to a maximum of 15 minutes is dedicated to
reading time before the start of the assessment. You may make notes on your question
paper, but not in your answer sheet. Calculators may not be used during reading time.
4. You may not leave the assessment venue during reading time, or during the first hour or
during the last 15 minutes of the assessment.
5. Ensure that your name is on all pieces of paper or books that you will be submitting. Submit
all the pages of this assessment’s question paper as well as your answer script.
6. Answer all the questions on the answer sheets or in answer booklets provided. The phrase
‘END OF PAPER’ will appear after the final set question of this assessment.
7. Remember to work at a steady pace so that you are able to complete the assessment within
the allocated time. Use the mark allocation as a guideline as to how much time to spend on
each section.
Additional instructions:
1. This is an OPEN BOOK assessment.
2. For open book assessments the students may have open access to all resources inclusive of
notes, books (hardcopy and e-books) and the internet. These resources may be accessed as
hard copies or as electronic files on electronic devices. All electronic devices batteries must
be fully charged before the assessment as no charging of devices will be permitted during
the sitting of the assessment. The IIE and associated brands accept no liability for the loss or
damage incurred to electronic devices used during open book assessments.
3. Answer All Questions.
4. Instructions for assessments including practical computer work:
• Use of good programming practice and comments in code is compulsory.
• Save your application in the location indicated by the administrator (e.g., the Z:\ drive
or your local drive).
• Create a folder as follows: use the module code and your own student number and
create a folder with a folder name as per the format shown here:
• StudentNumber_ModuleCode_Exam. Save all files (including any source code files,
template files, design files, image files, text files, database files, etc.) within this
folder.

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• E.g., if your student number is 12345, and you are writing an examination for the
module PROG121, create a folder named 12345_Prog121_Exam and use this
throughout the session to save all of your files.
• Important: Upon completion of your assessment, you must save and close all your
open files and double click the ExamLog application on your desktop. You must follow
the instructions carefully to ensure that the information about the files that you have
submitted for this assessment has been logged on the network. Specify the location of
your source code on your question paper.

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Question 1 – Entity Relationship Diagram (Marks: 20)

Answer this question in your answer booklet.

Draw an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) using Unified Modelling Language (UML) notation
according to the below business rules. Your design should be at the logical level – include primary
and foreign key fields and remember to remove any many-to-many relationships.

Tip: Pay attention to the mark allocation shown below.

Business rules for a restaurant chain with several restaurants around the country:

1. All entities should have surrogate primary keys.

2. Each dish has a dish type, and there can be lots of dishes with the same dish type.
3. The description for each dish type must be stored in the database.
4. The name and description for each dish must be stored in the database.
5. Each restaurant has exactly one owner, but an owner may own multiple restaurants in the
chain.
6. The name and surname of each owner must be stored in the database.
7. The name of each restaurant must be stored in the database.
8. Each restaurant may select several dishes to put on their menu, and a dish can be served at
many different restaurants.
9. Since dish selections can change over time, the start date and end date of each dish
selection must also be stored in the database.

Marks will be awarded as follows:

Entities 5 marks
Relationships 4 marks
Multiplicities 4 marks
Primary keys 2 marks
Foreign keys 2 marks
Other attributes 2 marks
Correct UML Notation 1 mark
Total 20 marks

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Question 2 – Normalisation (Marks: 25)

Answer this question in your answer booklet.

A lot of data about restaurant staff employment has already been collected in a spreadsheet (an
extract from the spreadsheet is shown below). The data has been normalised to first normal form
already – underlined column names indicate composite primary key columns.

Note: A waiter can work at a specific restaurant only once. But waiters are allowed to move to a
different restaurant in the chain. The employment type for a waiter never changes.

Restau- Restaurant Waiter Waiter Waiter Employee Employee Start End

rant ID Name ID Name Surname Type ID Type Date Date
1 Bears of 2 John Smith 1 Permanent 2020- 2020-
Brooklyn 01-19 09-15
1 Bears of 3 Sarah Ndambi 2 Temporary 2021- 2021-
Brooklyn 09-09 10-30
2 Cats of 3 Sarah Ndambi 2 Temporary 2021- -
Cape Town 11-02
2 Cats of 4 Themba Dlamini 1 Permanent 2022- 2022-
Cape Town 02-02 03-15
3 Doves of 5 Pete Nair 2 Temporary 2022- -
Durban 04-30

Normalise the above data to the third normal form (3NF). Show all steps and the final answer in
the form of dependency diagrams.

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Question 3 – SQL (Marks: 60)

The answer to this question should be submitted digitally.

Using MySQL, create a single Structured Query Language (SQL) script that answers all the below
questions. Include comments to indicate which part of the script answers which question.

The script must execute correctly using MySQL to get full marks.

Make use of the following data dictionary:

Table: Restaurant
Data Data Field
Field name Req? Description Example
type format size
RestaurantID int Yes Autonumber 1
{PK} primary key
Name varchar(100) 100 Yes The name of the Bears of
restaurant Brooklyn
Occupancy int Yes Number of people 50
allowed in the
restaurant

Table: City
Data Data Field
Field name Req? Description Example
type format size
CityID {PK} int Yes Autonumber 2
primary key
Name varchar(100) 100 Yes The name of the Cape Town
city.

Table: RestaurantCity
Data Data Field
Field name Req? Description Example
type format size
RestaurantCityID int Yes Autonumber 14
{PK} primary key
RestaurantID int Yes Foreign key that 2
{FK1} links to the
Restaurant table
CityID {FK2} int Yes Foreign key that 1
links to the City
table

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OpenDate date YYYY- Yes Date that the 2022-01-01

mm-dd restaurant
opened
CloseDate date YYYY- No Date that the 2022-01-31
mm-dd restaurant closed

Q.3.1 Create a schema called restaurantgroup_<studentNumber>, as well as the

Restaurant, City, and RestaurantCity tables. (15)

Q.3.2 Insert the following data into the tables:

Table: Restaurant
RestaurantID Name Occupancy
1 Bears of Brooklyn 100
2 Cats of Cape Town 500

Table: City
CityID Name
1 Pretoria
2 Cape Town (7)

Table: RestaurantCity
RestaurantCityID RestaurantID CityID OpenDate CloseDate
1 1 1 2020-01-01
2 2 2 2022-01-01 2022-02-03

Q.3.3 Query the names of all the restaurants in the databases, sorted from highest
occupancy to lowest occupancy. Include all columns from the restaurant table. (2)

Q.3.4 Query the restaurants that closed between 2022-01-01 and 2022-12-31, both
inclusive. Include the CityID, OpenDate and CloseDate in the results. (5)

Q.3.5 Query the number of restaurants in each city. Include the CityID and the number of
restaurants in the results. (5)

Q.3.6 Query a list of all the restaurants in the database. Include the name of the
restaurant, the name of the city where it is located, and the restaurant's occupancy
in the results. (8)

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Q.3.7 A restaurant is currently open if it does not have a closing date and the opening
date is not in the future. Create a view that gets the list of restaurants that are
currently open. Include just the name of each open restaurant in the results. (8)

Q.3.8 Create a stored procedure called count_restaurants_in_city. It should take the

CityID for the city as input and determine the number of restaurants in the city.
Then, only return the number of restaurants. And include a call to the newly
created stored procedure to get the number of restaurants in the city 2. (10)

Question 4 – NoSQL (Marks: 15)

The answer to this question should be submitted digitally.

A restaurant wants to store recipe information in a NoSQL database. Write MongoDB interactive
shell commands to complete the tasks below. Then, copy and paste all the commands from the
shell into a single text file for submission.

The commands must execute correctly using the MongoDB shell to get full marks.

Q.4.1 Create a database called recipes_<your-student-number>. The <your-student-

number> part should be replaced with your student number, for example recipes
_st29876543. (2)

Q.4.2 In a collection called recipeBook, create the following data:

RecipeName Type MainIngredient Calories
Choc Pudding Dessert Chocolate 500
Toasty Main Bread 200 (6)

Q.4.3 Get a list of all the recipes in the collection. (3)

Q.4.4 Query all the recipes where the calories are less than or equal to 300. (4)

END OF PAPER

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