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Functional Dependency

Murat Kantarcioglu
Functional Dependencies
• Let R be a relation schema
  R and   R

• The functional dependency



holds on R if and only if for any legal relations
r(R), whenever any two tuples t1 and t2 of r agree
on the attributes , they also agree on the
attributes . That is,
t1[] = t2 []  t1[ ] = t2 [ ]
Example
• Example: Consider r(A,B ) with the following
instance of r.
A B
1 3
1 6
2 7

• On this instance, A  B does NOT hold, but B


 A does hold.
Example
A B C D
a1 b1 c1 d1
a1 b1 c1 d2
a1 b2 c2 d1
a2 b1 c3 d1
• Does AB  C hold?
• Does ABC  D hold ?
• Does BC  D hold?
Example
SSN LastName FirstName City
111111111 Smith John Richardson
222222222 Li Peng Richardson
333333333 Kant John Plano
444444444 Smith Mark Plano
• Does {ssn}  {LastName} hold?
• Does {ssn}  {LastName,FirstName} hold ?
• Does {LastName, FirstName} {City} hold?
• Does {City}  {FirstName} hold?
Procedure for Computing F+
F+=F
repeat
for each functional dependency f in F+
apply reflexivity and augmentation rules on f
add the resulting functional dependencies to F +
for each pair of functional dependencies f1and f2 in F +
if f1 and f2 can be combined using transitivity then
add the resulting functional dependency to F +
until F + does not change any further
Example
• R = (A, B, C, G, H, I)
F = { A  B, A  C, CG  H, CG  I, B  H}
• some members of F+
– AH
• by transitivity from A  B and B  H
– AG  I
• by augmenting A  C with G, to get AG  CG
and then transitivity with CG  I
– CG  HI
• by augmenting CG  I to infer CG  CGI, and
augmenting of CG  H to infer CGI  HI,
and then transitivity
Closure of Attribute Sets
• Given a set of attributes  define the closure of  under
F (denoted by +) as the set of attributes that are
functionally determined by  under F
• Algorithm to compute +, the closure of  under F
result := ;
while (changes to result) do
for each    in F do
begin
if   result then result := result  
end
Example of Attribute Set
Closure
• R = (A, B, C, G, H, I)
• F = {A  B,A  C ,CG  H,CG  I,B  H}
• (AG)+
1. result = AG
2. result = ABCG (A  C and A  B)
3. result = ABCGH (CG  H and CG  AGBC)
4. result = ABCGHI (CG  I and CG  AGBCH)
• Is AG a candidate key?
1. Is AG a super key?
1. Does AG  R? == Is (AG)+  R
2. Is any subset of AG a superkey?
1. Does A  R? == Is (A)+  R
2. Does G  R? == Is (G)+  R

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