Relational Model Introduction - E-Courses
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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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