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DATE | 2014-12-18 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [LIU Comp Sci] Normalization review
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From owner-learn-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Dec 18 12:57:21 2014 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id 84D13161167; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:57:21 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: learn-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id 6DDB5161169; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:57:21 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: learn-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC5F161167 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:57:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A0613B8D for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:57:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by panix2.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20529) id 875B933C87; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:57:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:57:19 -0500 From: Ruben Safir To: learn-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [LIU Comp Sci] Normalization review Message-ID: <20141218175719.GA8203-at-panix.com> References: <20141218154519.GC4242-at-panix.com> <20141218160916.GA14854-at-panix.com> <20141218165609.GA3184-at-panix.com> <20141218170904.GB3184-at-panix.com> <20141218171309.GC3184-at-panix.com> <20141218171812.GA16120-at-panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: owner-learn-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: learn-at-mrbrklyn.com
Ah - but that is the same as the text book.
It says, for example:
The only free tuple variables in a relational calculus expression should be those that appear to the left of the bar ( | ). In above query, t is the only free variable; it is then bound successively to each tuple.
WHY? What is the point of the bar and what does it matter if a tupple variable is free or bound?
This should have been tought FIRST, in the first two weeks and driven into us over the entire semester. This is tough and important stuff.
Ruben
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