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Question:
Published on: 19 April, 2024

Write short notes on the following:

  • Armstrong’s Axioms
  • Outer join
Answer:

Armstrong’s Axioms:

An inference axiom is a rule that states if a relation satisfies certain Functional Dependencies (FDs) then it must satisfy certain other FDs. These rules are applied repeatedly for a give set of FDs so that all of F+ i.e. closure can be inferred. Let X, Y, Z, W be the arbitrary schema R and XY is denoted by XY.

F1. Reflexivity If Y Í X, then X →Y holds

F2. Augmentation If X → Y then XW → YZ

F3. Transitivity If (X → Y) and (Y → Z) then (X → Z)

Computing F+ using axioms directly is quite complicated. Thus, to simplify the task of computing F+ from F, additional inference rules are derived from Armstrong’s axioms. These rules are:

F4. Union If {(X → Y) (X → Z)} then X → YZ

F5. Decomposition If (X → YZ) then X → Y

F6. Pseudo-transitivity If (X → Y) and (YZ → W) then XZ → W

 

Outer Join:

Outer Join is based on both matched and unmatched data. Outer Joins subdivide further into,

  • Left Outer Join
  • Right Outer Join
  • Full Outer Join

                    R1: class                                                   R2: class info

 

ID

Address

1

DELHI

2

MUMBAI

3

CHENNAI

7

NOIDA

8

PANIPAT

ID

NAME

1

abhi

2

adam

3

alex

4

anu

5

ashish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left Outer Join

The left outer join returns a result table with the matched data of two tables then remaining rows of the left table and null for the right table's column.                                              

ID

NAME

ID

Address

1

abhi

1

DELHI

2

adam

2

MUMBAI

3

alex

3

CHENNAI

4

anu

null

null

5

ashish

null

null

Right Outer Join

The right outer join returns a result table with the matched data of two tables then remaining rows of the right table left table's columns.

ID

NAME

ID

Address

1

abhi

1

DELHI

2

adam

2

MUMBAI

3

alex

3

CHENNAI

null

null

7

NOIDA

null

null

8

PANIPAT

Full Outer Join

The full outer join returns a result table with the matched data of two table then remaining rows of both left table and then the right table.

ID

NAME

ID

Address

1

abhi

1

DELHI

2

adam

2

MUMBAI

3

alex

3

CHENNAI

4

anu

null

null

5

ashish

null

null

null

null

7

NOIDA

null

null

8

PANIPAT

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