Multiple choice

Consider the relation account (customer, balance) where customer is a primary key and there are no null values. We would like to rank customers according to decreasing balance. The customer with the largest balance gets rank 1. Ties are not broken but ranks are skipped: if exactly two customers have the largest balance they each get rank 1 and rank 2 is not assigned.

Consider these statements about Query 1 and Query 2.

  1. Query 1 will produce the same row set as Query 2 for some but not all databases.
  2. Both Query 1 and Query 2 are correct implementation of the specification.
  3. Query 1 is a correct implementation of the specification but Query 2 is not.
  4. Neither Query 1 nor Query 2 is a correct implementation of the specification.
  5. Assigning rank with a pure relational query takes less time than scanning in decreasing balance order assigning ranks using ODBC.

Which two of the above statements are correct?

  1. 2 and 5

  2. 1 and 3

  3. 1 and 4

  4. 3 and 5

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C Correct answer
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