CBSE 2025, Set 4, Q27

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Nisha is assigned the task of maintaining the staff data of an organization. She has to store the details of the staff in the SQL table named **EMPLOYEES** with attributes as **EMPNO**, **NAME**, **DEPARTMENT**, **BASICSAL** to store Employee's Identification Number, Name, Department, and Basic Salary respectively. There can be two or more Employees with the same name in the organization.

**(i)** (a) Help Nisha to identify the attribute which should be designated as the PRIMARY KEY. Justify your answer.

**OR**

(b) Help Nisha to identify the constraint which should be applied to the attribute **NAME** such that the Employees' Names cannot be left empty or **NULL** while entering the records but can have duplicate values.

**(ii)** (a) Write the SQL command to change the size of the attribute **BASICSAL** in the table **EMPLOYEES** to allow the maximum value of **99999.99** to be stored in it.

**OR**

(b) Write the SQL command to delete the table **EMPLOYEES**.

Edvaya · Accepted Answer

The correct answer is Subjective. **(i) (a)** The attribute that should be designated as the PRIMARY KEY is **`EMPNO`**. **Justification:** A primary key must uniquely identify each record in a table. `EMPNO` (Employee Identification Number) is unique for every employee, whereas names and departments can be duplicated. --- **OR** **(i) (b)** The constraint that should be applied to the attribute **`NAME`** is the **`NOT NULL`** constraint. This ensures the column cannot be left empty, while still naturally allowing duplicate names. **(ii) (a)** To change the size/data type of an existing attribute, we use the `ALTER TABLE` command with the `MODIFY` clause. The maximum value `99999.99` has 7 total digits with 2 decimal places, so the data type should be defined as `DECIMAL(7,2)`. ```sql ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEES MODIFY BASICSAL DECIMAL(7,2); ``` --- **OR** **(ii) (b)** To completely delete a table and its structure from the database, we use the `DROP TABLE` command. ```sql DROP TABLE EMPLOYEES; ```

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