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Chapter 2: Relational Model

Chapter 2: Relational Model. Database System Concepts. Chapter 1: Introduction Part 1: Relational databases Chapter 2: Relational Model Chapter 3: SQL Chapter 4: Advanced SQL Chapter 5: Other Relational Languages Part 2: Database Design

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Chapter 2: Relational Model

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  1. Chapter 2: Relational Model

  2. Database System Concepts • Chapter 1: Introduction • Part 1: Relational databases • Chapter 2: Relational Model • Chapter 3: SQL • Chapter 4: Advanced SQL • Chapter 5: Other Relational Languages • Part 2: Database Design • Chapter 6: Database Design and the E-R Model • Chapter 7: Relational Database Design • Chapter 8: Application Design and Development • Part 3: Object-based databases and XML • Chapter 9: Object-Based Databases • Chapter 10: XML • Part 4: Data storage and querying • Chapter 11: Storage and File Structure • Chapter 12: Indexing and Hashing • Chapter 13: Query Processing • Chapter 14: Query Optimization • Part 5: Transaction management • Chapter 15: Transactions • Chapter 16: Concurrency control • Chapter 17: Recovery System • Part 6: Data Mining and Information Retrieval • Chapter 18: Data Analysis and Mining • Chapter 19: Information Retreival • Part 7: Database system architecture • Chapter 20: Database-System Architecture • Chapter 21: Parallel Databases • Chapter 22: Distributed Databases • Part 8: Other topics • Chapter 23: Advanced Application Development • Chapter 24: Advanced Data Types and New Applications • Chapter 25: Advanced Transaction Processing • Part 9: Case studies • Chapter 26: PostgreSQL • Chapter 27: Oracle • Chapter 28: IBM DB2 • Chapter 29: Microsoft SQL Server • Online Appendices • Appendix A: Network Model • Appendix B: Hierarchical Model • Appendix C: Advanced RelationalDatabase Model

  3. Part 1: Relational databases (Chapters 2 through 5). • Chapter 2: Relational Model • introduces the relational model of data, covering basic concepts as well as the relational algebra. The chapter also provides a brief introduction to integrity constraints. • Chapter 3: SQL & Chapter 4: Advanced SQL • focus on the most influential of the user-oriented relational languages: SQL. • While Chapter 3 provides a basic introduction to SQL, Chapter 4 describes more advanced features of SQL, including how to interface between a programming language and a database supporting SQL. • Chapter 5: Other Relational Languages • covers other relational languages, including the relational calculus, QBE and Datalog. The chapters in this part describe data manipulation: queries, updates, insertions, and deletions, assuming a schema design has been provided. Schema design issues are deferred to Part 2.

  4. Chapter 2: Relational Model • 2.1 Structure of Relational Databases • 2.2 Fundamental Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.3 Additional Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.4 Extended Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.5 Null Values • 2.6 Modification of the Database • 2.7 Summary

  5. Example of a Relation

  6. Basic Structure • Formally, given sets D1, D2, …. Dn a relation r is a subset of D1 x D2 x … x DnThus, a relation is a set of n-tuples (a1, a2, …, an) where each ai Di • Example: Ifcustomer_name = {Jones, Smith, Curry, Lindsay}customer_street = {Main, North, Park}customer_city = {Harrison, Rye, Pittsfield}Then r = { (Jones, Main, Harrison), (Smith, North, Rye), (Curry, North, Rye), (Lindsay, Park, Pittsfield) } is a relation over customer_name x customer_street x customer_city

  7. Attribute Types • Each attribute of a relation has a name • The set of allowed values for each attribute is called the domain of the attribute • Attribute values are (normally) required to be atomic; that is, indivisible • Note: multivalued attribute values are not atomic • Note: composite attribute values are not atomic • The special value null is a member of every domain • The null value causes complications in the definition of many operations • We shall ignore the effect of null values in our main presentation and consider their effect later

  8. Relation Schema • A1, A2, …, Anare attributes • R = (A1, A2, …, An ) is a relation schema Example: Customer_schema = (customer_name, customer_street, customer_city) • r(R) is a relation on the relation schema R Example: customer (Customer_schema)

  9. Relation Instance • The current values (relation instance) of a relation are specified by a table • An element t of r is a tuple, represented by a row in a table attributes (or columns) customer_name customer_street customer_city Jones Smith Curry Lindsay Main North North Park Harrison Rye Rye Pittsfield tuples (or rows) customer

  10. Relations are Unordered • Order of tuples is irrelevant (tuples may be stored in an arbitrary order) • Example: account relation with unordered tuples

  11. Database • A database consists of multiple relations • Information about an enterprise is broken up into parts, with each relation storing one part of the information account : stores information about accountsdepositor : stores information about which customer owns which account customer : stores information about customers • Storing all information as a single relation such as bank(account_number, balance, customer_name, ..)results in • repetition of information (e.g., two customers own an account) • the need for null values (e.g., represent a customer without an account) • Normalization theory (Chapter 7) deals with how to design relational schemas

  12. The customer Relation

  13. The depositor Relation

  14. Keys • Let K  R • K is a superkey of R if values for K are sufficient to identify a unique tuple of each possible relation r(R) • by “possible r ” we mean a relation r that could exist in the enterprise we are modeling. • Example: {customer_name, customer_street} and {customer_name} are both superkeys of Customer, if no two customers can possibly have the same name. • K is a candidate key if K is minimalExample: {customer_name} is a candidate key for Customer, since it is a superkey (assuming no two customers can possibly have the same name), and no subset of it is a superkey. • Primary Key

  15. Chapter 2: Relational Model • 2.1 Structure of Relational Databases • 2.2 Fundamental Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.3 Additional Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.4 Extended Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.5 Null Values • 2.6 Modification of the Database • 2.7 Summary

  16. Query Languages • Language in which user requests information from the database. • Categories of languages • Procedural • Non-procedural, or declarative • “Pure” languages: • Relational algebra • Tuple relational calculus • Domain relational calculus • Pure languages form underlying basis of query languages that people use.

  17. Relational Algebra • Procedural language • Six basic operators • select:  • project:  • union:  • set difference: – • Cartesian product: x • rename:  • The operators take one or two relations as inputs and produce a new relation as a result.

  18. Select Operation – Example • Relation r A B C D         1 5 12 23 7 7 3 10 • A=B ^ D > 5(r) A B C D     1 23 7 10

  19. Select Operation • Notation: p(r) • p is called the selection predicate • Defined as:p(r) = {t | t  rand p(t)} Where p is a formula in propositional calculus consisting of termsconnected by :  (and),  (or),  (not) Each term is one of: <attribute> op <attribute> or <constant> where op is one of: =, , >, . <.  • Example of selection:branch_name=“Perryridge”(account)

  20. Project Operation – Example A B C • Relation r:     10 20 30 40 1 1 1 2 A C A C A,C (r)     1 1 1 2    1 1 2 =

  21. Project Operation • Notation: where A1, A2 are attribute names and r is a relation name. • The result is defined as the relation of k columns obtained by erasing the columns that are not listed • Duplicate rows removed from result, since relations are sets • Example: To eliminate the branch_name attribute of accountaccount_number, balance (account)

  22. Union Operation – Example • Relations r, s: A B A B    1 2 1   2 3 s r A B     1 2 1 3 • r  s:

  23. Union Operation • Notation: r s • Defined as: r s = {t | t  r or t  s} • For r s to be valid. 1. r,s must have the same arity (same number of attributes) 2. The attribute domains must be compatible (example: 2nd column of r deals with the same type of values as does the 2nd column of s) • Example: to find all customers with either an account or a loancustomer_name (depositor)  customer_name (borrower)

  24. Set Difference Operation – Example • Relations r, s: A B A B    1 2 1   2 3 s r • r – s: A B   1 1

  25. Set Difference Operation • Notation r – s • Defined as: r – s = {t | t rand t  s} • Set differences must be taken between compatible relations. • r and s must have the same arity • attribute domains of r and s must be compatible

  26. Cartesian-Product Operation – Example • Relations r, s: A B C D E   1 2     10 10 20 10 a a b b r s • r xs: A B C D E         1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2         10 10 20 10 10 10 20 10 a a b b a a b b

  27. Cartesian-Product Operation • Notation r x s • Defined as: r x s = {t q | t  r and q  s} • Assume that attributes of r(R) and s(S) are disjoint. (That is, R  S = ). • If attributes of r(R) and s(S) are not disjoint, then renaming must be used.

  28. Composition of Operations • Can build expressions using multiple operations • Example: A=C(r x s) • r x s • A=C(r x s) A B C D E         1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2         10 10 20 10 10 10 20 10 a a b b a a b b A B C D E       10 10 20 a a b 1 2 2

  29. Rename Operation • Allows us to name, and therefore to refer to, the results of relational-algebra expressions. • Allows us to refer to a relation by more than one name. • Example: x (E) returns the expression E under the name X • If a relational-algebra expression E has arity n, then returns the result of expression E under the name X, and with the attributes renamed to A1 , A2 , …., An .  : Greek pronunciation “roh”

  30. Banking Example branch (branch_name, branch_city, assets) customer (customer_name, customer_street, customer_city) account (account_number, branch_name, balance) loan (loan_number, branch_name, amount) depositor (customer_name, account_number) borrower(customer_name, loan_number)

  31. Example Queries • Find all loans of over $1200 amount> 1200 (loan) • Find the loan number for each loan of an amount greater than $1200 loan_number (amount> 1200 (loan))

  32. Example Queries • Find the names of all customers who have a loan, an account, or both, from the bank customer_name (borrower)  customer_name (depositor) • Find the names of all customers who have a loan and an account at bank. customer_name (borrower)  customer_name (depositor)

  33. Example Queries • Find the names of all customers who have a loan at the Perryridge branch. customer_name (branch_name=“Perryridge” (borrower.loan_number = loan.loan_number(borrower x loan))) • Find the names of all customers who have a loan at the Perryridge branch but do not have an account at any branch of the bank. customer_name (branch_name = “Perryridge” (borrower.loan_number = loan.loan_number(borrower x loan))) – customer_name(depositor)

  34. Example Queries • Find the names of all customers who have a loan at the Perryridge branch. • Query 1customer_name (branch_name = “Perryridge”( borrower.loan_number = loan.loan_number(borrower x loan))) • Query 2 customer_name(loan.loan_number = borrower.loan_number( (branch_name = “Perryridge”(loan)) x borrower))

  35. Example Queries • Find the largest account balance • Strategy: • Find those balances that are not the largest • Rename account relation as d so that we can compare each account balance with all others • Use set difference to find those account balances that were not found in the earlier step. • The query is: balance(account) - account.balance (account.balance < d.balance(accountxrd(account)))

  36. Formal Definition • A basic expression in the relational algebra consists of either one of the following: • A relation in the database • A constant relation • Let E1 and E2 be relational-algebra expressions; the following are all relational-algebra expressions: • E1 E2 • E1–E2 • E1 x E2 • p (E1), P is a predicate on attributes in E1 • s(E1), S is a list consisting of some of the attributes in E1 • x(E1), x is the new name for the result of E1

  37. Chapter 2: Relational Model • 2.1 Structure of Relational Databases • 2.2 Fundamental Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.3 Additional Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.4 Extended Relational-Algebra-Operations • 2.5 Null Values • 2.6 Modification of the Database • 2.7 Summary

  38. Additional Operations We define additional operations that do not add any power to the relational algebra, but that simplify common queries. • Set intersection • Natural join • Division • Assignment

  39. Set-Intersection Operation • Notation: r s • Defined as: rs = { t | trandts } • Assume: • r, s have the same arity • attributes of r and s are compatible • Note: rs = r – (r – s)

  40. Set-Intersection Operation – Example • Relation r, s: • r s A B A B    1 2 1   2 3 r s A B  2

  41. Natural-Join Operation • Notation: r s • Let r and s be relations on schemas R and S respectively. Then, r s is a relation on schema R S obtained as follows: • Consider each pair of tuples tr from r and ts from s. • If tr and ts have the same value on each of the attributes in RS, add a tuple t to the result, where • t has the same value as tr on r • t has the same value as ts on s • Example: R = (A, B, C, D) S = (E, B, D) • Result schema = (A, B, C, D, E) • rs is defined as:r.A, r.B, r.C, r.D, s.E (r.B = s.B  r.D = s.D (r x s)) • Equi Join, Theta Join

  42. r s Natural Join Operation – Example • Relations r, s: B D E A B C D 1 3 1 2 3 a a a b b           1 2 4 1 2      a a b a b r s A B C D E      1 1 1 1 2      a a a a b     

  43. Division Operation r  s • Notation: • Suited to queries that include the phrase “for all”. • Let r and s be relations on schemas R and S respectively where • R = (A1, …, Am , B1, …, Bn ) • S = (B1, …, Bn) The result of r  s is a relation on schema R – S = (A1, …, Am) r  s = { t | t   R-S (r)   u  s ( tu  r ) } Where tu means the concatenation of tuples t and u to produce a single tuple

  44. Division Operation – Example • Relations r, s: A B B            1 2 3 1 1 1 3 4 6 1 2 1 2 s • r s: A r  

  45. Another Division Example • Relations r, s: A B C D E D E         a a a a a a a a         a a b a b a b b 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 a b 1 1 s r • r s: A B C   a a  

  46. Division Operation (Cont.) • Property • Let q = r  s • Then q is the largest relation satisfying q x s r • Definition (in terms of the basic algebra operation) Let r(R) and s(S) be relations, and let S  R r  s = R-S (r ) – R-S ( ( R-S(r ) x s ) – R-S,S(r )) To see why • R-S,S (r) simply reorders attributes of r • R-S (R-S(r ) x s ) – R-S,S(r) ) gives those tuples t in R-S(r ) such that for some tuple u  s, tu  r.

  47. Assignment Operation • The assignment operation () provides a convenient way to express complex queries. • Write query as a sequential program consisting of • a series of assignments • followed by an expression whose value is displayed as a result of the query. • Assignment must always be made to a temporary relation variable. • Example: Write r  s as temp1 R-S (r )temp2 R-S ((temp1 x s ) – R-S,S (r ))result = temp1 – temp2 • The result to the right of the  is assigned to the relation variable on the left of the . • May use variable in subsequent expressions.

  48. Bank Example Queries • Find the names of all customers who have a loan and an account at bank. • Find the name of all customers who have a loan at the bank and the loan amount customer_name (borrower)  customer_name (depositor)

  49. Query 2 customer_name, branch_name(depositoraccount)  temp(branch_name)({(“Downtown” ), (“Uptown” )}) Note that Query 2 uses a constant relation. Bank Example Queries • Find all customers who have an account from at least the “Downtown” and the Uptown” branches. • Query 1 customer_name (branch_name = “Downtown” (depositoraccount ))  customer_name (branch_name = “Uptown” (depositoraccount))

  50. customer_name, branch_name(depositoraccount)  branch_name (branch_city = “Brooklyn” (branch)) Example Queries • Find all customers who have an account at all branches located in Brooklyn city.

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