INFS2200/7903 PROJECT ASSIGNMENT
Semester Two 2021
Total marks: 100 marks (25%)
Due Date: 11:59PM, 28 October 2021
What to Submit: SQL script file + short report
Where to Submit: Electronic submission via Blackboard
The goal of this project is to gain practical experience in applying several database
management concepts and techniques using the Oracle DBMS.
Your main task is to first populate your database with appropriate data, then design,
implement, and test the appropriate queries to perform the tasks explained in the next
sections.
You must work on this project individually. Academic integrity policies apply. Please
refer to 3.60.04 Student Integrity and Misconduct of the University Policy for more
information.
Roadmap: Section 1 describes the database schema for your project and it also
provides instructions on downloading the script file needed to create and populate your
database. Section 2 describes the tasks to be completed for this project. Finally,
Section 3 provides you with all the necessary submission guidelines.
Enjoy the project!
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SECTION 1. THE MOVIES DATABASE
The Database: The MOVIES database (Figure 1) captures the information regarding
movies and the actors in these movies. The database includes six tables: film, actor,
category, language, film_actor, and film_category. Film keeps track of film details.
Actor stores information about all actors in the movie industry. Category stores the
information about the different types of film categories. Language stores the different
languages in which these movies are released. Film_actor and film_category keep
track of which actors have acted in which films, and which films are classified under
which categories, respectively.
Figure 1 Database schema
The Script File: Please go to Blackboard and download the supplementary script file
for this project “prjScript.sql”.
actor_id
film_id
film_id
title
description
release_year
language_id
original_language_id
rental_duration
rental_rate
length
replacement_cost
rating
special_features
film_id
category_id
language_id
name
category_id
name
actor_id
first_name
last_name
film_category film film_actor
category language
actor
The Database Constraints: The following table lists all the constraints that should be
created on the MOVIES database.
No Constraint Name Table.Column Description
1 PK_ACTORID actor.actor_id actor_id is the primary key of
actor
2 PK_CATEGORYID category.category_id category_id is the primary key
of category
3 PK_FILMID film.film_id film_id is the primary key of film
4 PK_LANGUAGEID language.language_id language_id is the primary key
of language
5 UN_DESCRIPTION film.description Film description values are
unique
6 CK_FNAME actor.first_name Actor’s first name must not be
empty (not null)
7 CK_LNAME actor.last_name Actor’s last name must not be
empty (not null)
8 CK_CATNAME category.name Category name must not be
empty (not null)
9 CK_LANNAME language.name Language name must not be
empty (not null)
10 CK_TITLE film.title Film title must not be empty
(not null)
11 CK_RELEASEYR film.release_year film.release_year is less than or
equal to current year (Hardcode
the current year 2020)
12 CK_RATING film.rating Rating type must be one of the
following: 'G', 'PG', 'PG-13', 'R',
'NC-17'
13 CK_SPLFEATURES film.special_features Special features type must be
either empty or one of the
following: 'Trailers',
'Commentaries', 'Deleted
Scenes', 'Behind the Scenes'
14 FK_LANGUAGEID film.language_id
and language.language_id
film.language_id refers to
language.language_id
15 FK_ORLANGUAGEID film.original_language_id
and language.language_id
film.original_language_id refers
to language.language_id
16 FK_ACTORID film_actor.actor_id and
actor.actor_id
film_actor.actor_id refers to
actor.actor_id
17 FK_CATEGORYID film_category.category_id
and category.category_id
film_category.category_id
refers to category.category_id
18 FK_FILMID1 film_actor.film_id and
film.film_id
film_actor.film_id refers to
film.film_id
19 FK_FILMID2 film_category.film_id and
film.film_id
film_category.film_id refers to
film.film_id
Table 1. Database constraints
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SECTION 2. ASSIGNMENT TASKS
Create and Populate Database: You need to execute the script file “prjScript.sql” to
create and populate your database before working on the following tasks. Wait till you
see the message “DONE! All data has been inserted.” It should only take one minute.
The script will also drop related tables.
Task 1 – Constraints
- After running the script file, you will notice that only some of the constraints listed
in Table 1 were created. Write a SQL statement to find out what constraints have
been created on the six tables. (Note: some table names may need to be in capitals,
e.g., ‘FILM’ instead of ‘film’)
Question: Which constraints in Table 1 have been created on these six tables? - Write the SQL statements to create all the missing constraints.
Task 2 – Triggers - Assume that the film_id should be automatically populated when a new film is
added. Write a SQL statement to create a sequence object to generate values for
this column. The sequence, named FILM_ID_SEQ, should start from 20,010 and
increment by 10. - Write a SQL statement to create an Oracle trigger called BI_FILM_ID that binds
the sequence object FILM_ID_SEQ to the film_id column, i.e., the trigger populates
values of FILM_ID_SEQ to the film_id column when a new film is added. - Write a SQL statement to create an Oracle trigger BI_FILM_DESP that appends
text to the description of every new film inserted into the database. The text is
based on the rating, the language, and the original language of the film. The format
of the text you append should be as follows (replacing tokens):- : Originally in . Re-released in .
Here,is the sequence number of the film with that , and should be the name of the language from the language
table.
Hint: You might need to use some built-in functions for string manipulation such
as TO_CHAR, CONCAT, SUBSTR, INSTR, etc.
Notes for Task 2.3:
• The new description must match the expected output exactly in order to receive
marks. For example,
o Do not add extra space or line break;
o Do not change capitalisation of the rating or the language names.
• If either rating, language_id, or original_language_id of the new film is null, then
the trigger should do nothing, i.e., the new film uses the original description.
• You do not need to handle the cases where the resulting text after the trigger
exceeds the description length. Let the trigger fail.
• Do not use hardcode. Your trigger should be able to handle other languages
beyond those provided to you in the SQL script.
o For example, if the language ‘SQL’ is added to the language table, then the
trigger should be able to handle a movie in ‘SQL’.
Task 3 – Views - Write a SQL statement to find the ‘Action’ (category) films with the shortest running
time (length). Your query should output the titles and lengths of the films. - Write a SQL statement to create a (virtual) view called MIN_ACTION_ACTORS
that contains all the actors who have acted in the films you obtained in Task 3.1.
The view should include the columns actor_id, first_name, and last_name. (Note:
Each actor should only appear once in the view, even if they may have acted in
multiple films) Write a SQL statement to create a (virtual) view called V_ACTION_ACTORS_2012
that lists the ids, first names and last names of all the actors who have acted in an
‘Action’ film released in the year 2012. (Note: There should be no duplicate rows
in the view, similar to Task 3.2)
Example: Assume the following film is inserted into the database, which is the
5
th film with a rating ‘PG’ (i.e., there are already 4 films with the rating ‘PG’ in the
database), and the current FILM_ID_SEQ value is 20,010.
INSERT INTO film (title, description, language_id, original_language_id, rating)
VALUES (‘B Movie’, ‘Movie about wasps.’, 1, 2, ‘PG’);
It should produce the following result when the following SQL statement is run:
SQL> SELECT description FROM film WHERE film_id = 20010;DESCRIPTION
Movie about wasps.PG-5: Originally in Italian. Re-released in English.
- Write a SQL statement to create a materialized view MV_ACTION_ACTORS_2012
that lists the same information as in Task 3.3. - Execute the following two SQL statements and report their query execution time.
Question: Did the materialized view speed up the query processing? Explain your
answer. (Hint: You should look at both the elapsed time and the cost in the query
execution plan)
SELECT * FROM V_ACTION_ACTORS_2012;
SELECT * FROM MV_ACTION_ACTORS_2012;
Note: For any task mentioning the execution time, please run the queries on a
computer with a HDD rather than an SSD, so that the timing difference is noticeable.
All lab computers have HDDs and are appropriate for such task.
Task 4 – Indexes - Write a SQL statement to find the first 100 films (in ascending alphabetical order
of the film titles) that take place in a ‘Boat’, i.e., the word ‘Boat’ appears in the film
description. (Note: You should avoid using LIKE in the SQL statement and instead
use string manipulation functions) - In order to potentially speed up the query in Task 4.1, a function-based index could
be created on the film table. Write a SQL statement to create an index IDX_BOAT
that best fits the task and justify your choice. - Report the execution time and execution plan of the query statement you wrote in
Task 4.1 before and after creating the index in Task 4.2.
Question: Did the index speed up query processing? Explain your answer. (Hint:
You should look at both the elapsed time and the cost in the query execution plan) - Write a SQL statement to count the number of films for which there are at least 40
other films with the same release_year, rating, and special_features values. - In order to potentially speed up the query in Task 4.4, indexes should be created
on the release_year, rating, and special_features columns.
Question: In your opinion, what is the most suitable index type to create on those
columns, and why? (Note: Do not include any SQL to create the index in your script
file; just provide your answer in the report)
Task 5 – Execution Plan - A B+ tree index PK_FILMID has been generated automatically for the primary key
film_id of the table film. Write SQL statements to answer the following Questions:
• What is the height of the B+ tree index?
• What is the number of leaf blocks in the B+ tree index?
• What is the number of block access needed for a full table scan of the film table?
Hint: You may find the following documents from Oracle helpful for Task 5.1:
• https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B2...
m#REFRN29025
• https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B1...
m#REFRN26286
• https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B1...
m#REFRN20286 - The following SQL statement lists all the films with a film_id larger than 100:
SELECT * FROM FILM WHERE FILM_ID > 100;
Report the rule-based execution plan chosen by the Oracle optimizer for executing
this query.
Question: Explain the query processing steps taking place in this plan. - Report the cost-based execution plan chosen by the Oracle optimizer for executing
the query in Task 5.2.
Question: Explain the query processing steps taking place in this plan. In your
opinion, what are the main differences between the plans you obtained in Task 5.2
and Task 5.3, based on the statistics from Task 5.1 and your calculation? - The following SQL statement lists all the films with a film_id larger than 19,990:
SELECT * FROM FILM WHERE FILM_ID > 19990;
Report the cost-based execution plan chosen by the Oracle optimizer for executing
this query.
Question: Explain the query processing steps taking place in this plan. In your
opinion, what are the main differences between the plans you obtained in Task 5.3
and Task 5.4, based on the statistics from Task 5.1 and your calculation? - The following SQL statement lists all information for the film with a film_id of 100:
SELECT * FROM FILM WHERE FILM_ID = 100;
Report the cost-based execution plan chosen by the Oracle optimizer for executing
this query.
Question: Explain the query processing steps taking place in this plan. In your
opinion, what are the main differences between the plans you obtained in Task 5.3
and Task 5.5, based on the statistics from Task 5.1 and your calculation?
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SECTION 3. DELIVERABLES
The project is due 11:59PM, 28 October 2021. Late submissions will not be accepted
unless you are approved for an extension (refer to Section 5.3 of the ECP).
You are required to turn in two files (use StudentID to name your files): - StudentID.pdf: (replacing StudentID) – Submit on Blackboard via the Turnitin link
“Report Submission”
A report that answers all the questions in Section 2 including all the necessary SQL
statements and screenshots of their outputs. - StudentID.sql: (replacing StudentID) – Submit on Blackboard via the standard
upload link “SQL Script Submission”
A plaintext script file that includes all your SQL statements.
Your report file should include the following content:
• Answers to all the Questions in Section 2.
• If you are asked to write SQL statements, you need to include those statements in
your report.
• After you execute a SQL statement, if Oracle produces any output (e.g. query result,
query execution time, query plan, etc), you should also include a screenshot of the
output as well. (Note: Please be sensible when including query output. Any output
close to the size of one page can be shown by just including the first 10 lines and
the last 10 lines. A report that includes multiple pages of a query output will lose
presentation marks. You may find some helpful instructions for formatting query
output in Practical 2 or the following Oracle documentation)
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/A5...
Your script file is in plain text format. You must make sure that your script file can be
executed on the ITEE lab computers by the “@” command. The same SQL statements
in your script file should also be copied and pasted into your report file (as explained
above). Even though the script file does not introduce any new information compared
to the report, it is intended to help the lecturer/tutors to quickly check the correctness
of your SQL statements before checking the details in your report file.
Enjoy the project! Good luck!