Alpha Beta wrote:
Hi list,  (newbie with databases)

I was looking out in net about how can we determine or find all functional dependencies in a relational database, but didn't find.

So can please anyone here tell me if functional dependecies for each table of a relational database can be found explicitly or we need algorithms for it or any other way?
Best regards!

Look for pairs of columns/attributes X and Y (or X may be a set of columns/attrs) where, for every row/tuple having the same value for X, the row/tuple always has the same value for Y. In this situation, for the data you have at least, there would seem to be a relationship where X determines Y and Y depends on X. Use an algorithm that does this looking for pairs. -- Darren Duncan


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