Jul 22 2010

Functional Dependency in Relational Database

Functional Dependency in Relational Database The concept of functional dependency is an extremely useful tool for thinking about data structures. Given any tuple T, with two sets of attributes {X1…Xn} and {Y1…Yn} (the sets need not be mutually exclusive), then set Y is functionally dependent on set X if, for any legal value of X, [...]