• In database theory, relational algebra is a theory that uses algebraic structures for modeling data and defining queries on it with well founded semantics...
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  • In relational algebra, a projection is a unary operation written as Π a 1 , . . . , a n ( R ) {\displaystyle \Pi _{a_{1},...,a_{n}}(R)} , where R {\displaystyle...
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  • In relational algebra, a join is a binary operation, written as R ⋈ S {\displaystyle R\bowtie S} where R {\displaystyle R} and S {\displaystyle S} represent...
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  • database. The relational calculus is similar to the relational algebra, which is also part of the relational model: While the relational calculus is meant...
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  • In relational algebra, a selection (sometimes called a restriction in reference to E.F. Codd's 1970 paper and not, contrary to a popular belief, to avoid...
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  • In relational algebra, a rename is a unary operation written as ρ a / b ( R ) {\displaystyle \rho _{a/b}(R)} where: R is a relation a and b are attribute...
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  • A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A Relational Database Management System...
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  • The relational model (RM) is an approach to managing data using a structure and language consistent with first-order predicate logic, first described in...
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  • Database normalization is the process of structuring a relational database in accordance with a series of so-called normal forms in order to reduce data...
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    = { x ∈ X : x ∼ a } . {\displaystyle [a]=\{x\in X:x\sim a\}.} In relational algebra, if R ⊆ X × Y {\displaystyle R\subseteq X\times Y} and S ⊆ Y × Z {\displaystyle...
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  • the relational algebra projection operation. AS optionally provides an alias for each column or expression in the SELECT list. This is the relational algebra...
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    various applications in computer science (such as in the theory of relational algebra), philosophy, formal semantics, and evolutionary dynamics. Its foundational...
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  • directed graphs, where objects reference each other. Relational is tuples in tables with relational algebra. Tuples are data fields grouped into a "row" with...
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  • theoretical properties that larger classes of queries (e.g., the relational algebra queries) do not share. The conjunctive queries are the fragment of...
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  • calculi (as well as relational algebra) are equivalent in expressive power.[citation needed] Subsequently, query languages for the relational model were called...
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  • simplification of the relational algebra and query language necessary to describe operations on the database. Codd considered 1NF mandatory for relational databases...
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    into a new table. The operation corresponds to a join operation in relational algebra. Informally, a join stitches two tables and puts on the same row records...
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  • related to query languages for relational databases, such as SQL. The following table maps between Datalog, relational algebra, and SQL concepts: More formally...
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  • without accessing the stored hierarchy relation". The standard relational algebra and relational calculus, and the SQL operations based on them, are unable...
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  • (sigma algebra), a refinement of sigma algebras Join (algebraic geometry), a union of lines between two varieties In computing: Join (relational algebra),...
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  • algebra (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures in general, not specific types of algebraic structures...
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  • in the development of relational databases that recursive queries cannot be expressed in either relational algebra or relational calculus, and that this...
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  • "non-relational") refers to a type of database design that stores and retrieves data differently from the traditional table-based structure of relational databases...
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  • Haskell records. Relational databases may formally identify their rows (records) as tuples. Tuples also occur in relational algebra; when programming...
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  • Look up relational in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Relational may refer to: Relational capital, the value inherent in a company's relationships with...
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  • variables. Its computational expressiveness is equivalent to that of relational algebra. Let (A, B, C) mean (Rank, Name, ID) in the Enterprise relation and...
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  • tangent bundle on a manifold. The unary operation of projection in relational algebra. Policy in reinforcement learning. Polyamory (in the earliest polyamory...
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    tab or comma. Relational algebra: Each row or record in the above table meets the standard definition of a tuple under relational algebra (the above example...
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  • be different on the surface: relational databases, multiple systems of formal logic or numerical problems of linear algebra. It allows the development of...
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