We give solutions for this more realistic case later.
person
name
(
company
name
=
“First Bank Corporation”
(
w
orks
))
If people may not work for any company:
person
name
(
employee
)
−
person
name
(
(
company
name
=
“First Bank Corporation”
)
(
w
orks
))
c.
person
name
(
w
orks
)
−
(
w
orks
.
person
name
(
w
orks
(
w
orks
.
salary
≤
w
orks
2
.
salary
∧
w
orks
2
.
company
name
=
“Small Bank Corporation”
)
w
orks
2
(
w
orks
)))
6.3
The natural outer-join operations extend the natural-join operation so that
tuples from the participating relations are not lost in the result of the join.
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Practice Exercises
3
Describe how the theta-join operation can be extended so that tuples from
the left, right, or both relations are not lost from the result of a theta join.
Answer:
a.
The left outer theta join of
r
(
R
) and
s
(
S
) (
r
s
) can be defined as
(
r
s
)
∪
((
r
−
R
(
r
s
))
×
(
null
,
null
, . . . ,
null
))
The tuple of nulls is of size equal to the number of attributes in
S
.
b.
The right outer theta join of
r
(
R
) and
s
(
S
) (
r
s
) can be defined as
(
r
s
)
∪
((
null
,
null
, . . . ,
null
)
×
(
s
−
S
(
r
s
)))
The tuple of nulls is of size equal to the number of attributes in
R
.
c.
The full outer theta join of
r
(
R
) and
s
(
S
) (
r
s
) can be defined as
(
r
s
)
∪
((
null
,
null
, . . . ,
null
)
×
(
s
−
S
(
r
s
)))
∪
((
r
−
R
(
r
s
))
×
(
null
,
null
, . . . ,
null
))
The first tuple of nulls is of size equal to the number of attributes in
R
, and the second one is of size equal to the number of attributes in
S
.
6.4
(
Division operation
): The division operator of relational algebra,
“
÷
”
, is
defined as follows. Let
r
(
R
) and
s
(
S
) be relations, and let
S
⊆
R
; that is,
every attribute of schema
S
is also in schema
R
. Then
r
÷
s
is a relation on
schema
R
−
S
(that is, on the schema containing all attributes of schema
R
that are not in schema
S
). A tuple
t
is in
r
÷
s
if and only if both of two
conditions hold:
•
t
is in
R
−
S
(
r
)
•
For every tuple
t
s
in
s
, there is a tuple
t
r
in
r
satisfying both of the
following:
a.
t
r
[
S
]
=
t
s
[
S
]
b.
t
r
[
R
−
S
]
=
t
Given the above definition:
a.
Write a relational algebra expression using the division operator to
find the
ID
s of all students who have taken all Comp. Sci. courses.
(Hint: project
takes
to just
ID
and
course
id
, and generate the set of
all Comp. Sci.
course
id
s using a select expression, before doing the
division.)
b.
Show how to write the above query in relational algebra, without
using division. (By doing so, you would have shown how to define
the division operation using the other relational algebra operations.)
Answer:
a.

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- Spring '13
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- Relational Database, Relational model, Formal Relational Query
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