Re: [GENERAL] subset of attributes

2011-02-15 Thread David Johnston
Some context would help but some (possibly relevant) possibilities: 1: If you have relation with 5 attributes you can generate tuples with all 5 attributes OR you can generate tuples with a subset of those attributes. Seems obvious but often these kinds of definitions are. 2: When looking a

Re: [GENERAL] subset of attributes

2011-02-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/15/11 2:01 PM, Alpha Beta wrote: Hi, while reading about databases, I didn't understand what can be subset of attributes, see the following : Let Ri (Xi) be a relation sheme, where Xi is a set of attributes. and if t is a tuple for Ri (Xi) and Y is a subset of Xi, then t[Y] denote th