COMP9311 25T1: Assignment 2
Deadline: Mon. 20:59:59 28th April (Sydney Time)
Note: Please make sure that you always use notations consistent with lecture
notes. Different notations will not be accepted.

Question 1 (12 marks)
Consider a relation R (A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J) and its FD set F= {AC -> BDI, DHI-> EJ,
BC ->G, GJ -> H, CEI ->BE, AH->CG}.

Regarding the following questions. Give and justify your answers if the question is
specified.
1) Check if AC→G. Justify your answer. (1 mark)
2) Find all the candidate keys for R. (2 mark)
3) Determine the highest normal form of R with respect to F. Justify your answer.
(2 marks)
4) Find a minimal cover Fm for F. (2 marks)
5) Regarding F, does the decomposition R1 = {ADHJ}, R2 = {CBEH}, R3 = {BGHJ}
of satisfy the lossless join property? Please justify your answer. (2 marks)
6) Provide a step-by-step lossless decomposition of R into BCNF normal form. (3
marks)


Question 2 (8 marks)
Consider the schedule below. Here, R(*) and W(*) stand for ‘Read’ and ‘Write’,
respectively. T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 represent five transactions and ti represents a
time slot.
t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 t11 t12
T1 R(A) R(D) W(A) W(D)
T2 R(D) W(D)
T3 R(E) R(D) W(D) R(B) W(B)
T4 R(D) W(D) W(C)
T5 W(B) R(A) W(A)

Each transaction begins at the time slot of its first operation and commits
right after its last operation (same time slot).

Regarding the following questions. Give and justify your answers.
1) Assume a checkpoint is made between t5 and t6, what should be done to the
five transactions when the crash happens between t9 and t10. (2 marks)
2) Is the transaction schedule conflict serializable? Give the full precedence graph
to justify your answer. (2 marks)
3) Construct a schedule (which is different from above) of these five transactions
which causes deadlock when using two-phase locking protocol. You should
clearly indicate all the locks and the corresponding unlocks in your schedule.
If no such schedule exists, explain why. (4 marks)

Question 3 (6 marks)
Consider the following query:
P1, P2, P3, P4, P3, P4, P1, P2, P4, P5, P2, P1.
(The user is trying to read page 1 from disk, then page 2, page 3, …)

Assume there are 3 buffers in the buffer pool. Regarding the following questions.
Give and justify your answers.
1) Sketch the process of how blocks are replaced in the Least Recently Used (LRU)
policy. (1.5 marks)
2) Sketch the process of how blocks are replaced in the Most Recently Used (MRU)
policy. (1.5 marks)
3) Sketch the process of how blocks are replaced in the First In First Out (FIFO)
policy. (1.5 marks)
4) Between LRU and FIFO policies, which one performs better in the given query?
Why? (1.5 marks)

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