12 Relational Languages

Abstract

This chapter provides a detailed discussion of relational algebra and its operations (union, intersection, difference, Cartesian product, selection, projection, join, division, and renaming). It then discusses relational database systems, and how to specify queries and updates in SQL.

Keywords

Relational algebra; Relational database; SQL; Queries; Updates

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