Oracle 9i
Oracle 9i database concepts including datatypes, transactions, distributed databases, and SQL features
Questions
In an Oracle distributed database system, which of the following is the one in which each server participating in a distributed database is administered independently from all other databases?
- Authentication through database links
- Distributed database security
- Auditing database links
- Administration tools
- Site autonomy
In Oracle, commit and savepoint commands come under
- Data Definition Language
- Data Manipulation Language
- Transaction Control Language
- Object Oriented Language
- Procedure Oriented Language
Which of the following calls is made in Oracle to perform work at some remote database?
- Rollback
- Commit
- Remote procedure calls
- System change number
- Savepoint
Which of the following phases in commit mechanism is the one in which the coordinator asks all other nodes to commit the transaction?
- Prepare phase
- Forget phase
- Commit phase
- Global coordinator
- Client
Which of the following transactions in distributed databases guarantees that all statements in a transaction either commit or rollback as a unit?
- Remote transaction
- Distributed transaction
- Two-phase commit mechanism
- Global database name
- None of these
Which of the following objects in distributed database receives a request for information from another node?
- Client
- Database server
- Global coordinator
- Local coordinator
- Commit point site
Which of the following datatypes in Oracle stores file pointers to large objects managed by file systems external to the database?
- BLOB
- BFILE
- LOB
- CLOB
- Raw
Which of the following objects in oracle does not return any value after execution of the program?
- Function
- Procedure
- Triggers
- Cursor
- None of these
Which of the following database objects is used to increase the performance of data retrieval by providing faster access path to the table data?
- Synonym
- Sequence
- Trigger
- Partitioning
- Index
In Oracle, which of the following administration tools allows an oracle database server to be located and queried by any SNMP based network management system?
- Enterprise Manager
- SNMP Support
- Third-Party Administration Tool
- Remote Query
- Distributed Query
Which of the following components in oracle 9i facilitates communication between oracle and non-oracle databases?
- Generic connectivity
- Heterogeneous services
- Database server
- Transparent gateway agents
- Homogeneous distributed database systems
Which of the following links in Oracle is a link between a local server process and remote database?
- Shared database link
- Database link
- Connected user link
- Fixed user link
- Global database name
Which of the following constraints in Oracle maintains the 'Not Null' constraint to specify a column in a table?
- Integrity constraint
- Domain integrity constraint
- Check constraint
- Entity integrity constraint
- Referential integrity constraint
Which of the following functions in Oracle translates a string in any datatype to a unicode string?
- Cast
- ASCII str
- Compose
- Convert
- Decode
Which of the following components in select statement in Oracle is used to sort the data in the database?
- From
- Where
- Group by
- Order by
- Distinct