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Join Operation<br />

• Cross product : produces all combinations of tuples<br />

• often only certain combinations are meaningful<br />

• cross product is usually followed by selection<br />

• Join : combines tuples from two relations provided they<br />

satisfy a specified condition (join condition)<br />

• equivalent to performing cross product followed by<br />

selection<br />

• a very useful operation<br />

• Depending on the type of condition we have<br />

• theta join<br />

• equi join<br />

Prof P Sreenivasa Kumar<br />

Department of CS&E, IITM<br />

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