Database Concepts (7th Edition)
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Author: David M. Kroenke, David J. Auer
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.9RQ
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Relation:
Relation is a two-dimensional table in which data is named. The relations have the named columns and numbers which denote the unnamed rows.
- Although relation is defined as the two-dimensional table of data, not all the tables are considered as relations.
- There are some properties that differentiate relation tables from non-relation tables.
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