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GATE CS Databases Syllabus: Topics and Previous Year Questions

The full GATE CS Databases syllabus — 9 topics. Previous year questions for this subject are being added. Sign up free to practise every question, topic by topic, with the answer to each one.

ER Model Coming soon

Relational Schema Coming soon

Covers: Introduction of RDBMS · Candidate Keys and Super Keys

Relational Algebra Coming soon

Normal Form Coming soon

Covers: Functional Dependencies and Normalization (Membership Set, Equality of FD Sets) · Minimal Cover · Normal Forms · Properties of Decomposition · Decomposition into Higher Normal Forms

Transactions Coming soon

Covers: Recoverable Schedules (Cascadeless, Strict) · Conflict and View Serializability (Serializable Schedules) · Lock-Based and Timestamp Protocols (2PL, Timestamp Ordering) · Recovery (Logs and Checkpoints)

Integrity Constraints Coming soon

SQL Coming soon

Covers: Structured Query Language (SQL): Basics, Joins and Set Operations · SQL: Nested Queries, Aggregation and Views

Tuple Calculus Coming soon

File Organization and Indexing Coming soon

Covers: File Organization and Blocking · Indexing (Single-Level and Multi-Level) · B Trees and B+ Trees

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