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Here is the relational algebra expression to retrieve the ESSN, total working hours for each employee: FSUM Hours (WORKS_ON) This expression applies the aggregate function FSUM to sum the Hours attribute for each group of tuples in the WORKS_ON relation, grouping by the ESSN attribute.

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Week9 10

Here is the relational algebra expression to retrieve the ESSN, total working hours for each employee: FSUM Hours (WORKS_ON) This expression applies the aggregate function FSUM to sum the Hours attribute for each group of tuples in the WORKS_ON relation, grouping by the ESSN attribute.

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College of electronics technology

________Baniwalid _______

The Relational Algebra and Calculus

(RA)

Week 9_10
Mustafa Abuali spring 2017
Outline
 Relational Algebra
 Unary Relational Operations
 Relational Algebra Operations From Set Theory
 Binary Relational Operations
 Additional Relational Operations
 Examples of Queries in Relational Algebra
 Example Database Application (COMPANY)
Binary Relational Operations: JOIN
 JOIN Operation (denoted by )
 A special operation, called JOIN combines this sequence
into a single operation
 This operation is very important for any relational database
with more than a single relation, because it allows us
combine related tuples from various relations
 The general form of a join operation on two relations R(A1,
A2, . . ., An) and S(B1, B2, . . ., Bm) is:
R <join condition>S
 where R and S can be any relations that result from general
relational algebra expressions.
The following query results refer to this
database state
Example
Solution
Binary Relational Operations: JOIN (cont.)

 Example: Suppose that we want to retrieve the name of the


manager of each and name of department.
 To get the manager’s name, we need to combine each
DEPARTMENT tuple with the EMPLOYEE tuple whose SSN
value matches the MGRSSN value in the department tuple.
 We do this by using the join operation.

 DEPT_MGR  DEPARTMENT MGRSSN=SSN EMPLOYEE


 MGRSSN=SSN is the join condition
 Combines each department record with the employee who
manages the department
 The join condition can also be specified as
DEPARTMENT.MGRSSN= EMPLOYEE.SSN
Example of applying the JOIN operation

DEPT_MGR  DEPARTMENT MGRSSN=SSN EMPLOYEE


Example of applying the JOIN operation
 The result kept in DEPT_MGR
you can make a query on this table by using selection or projection.

Example: Suppose that we want to retrieve the name of the project and name of
the controlling department .
Additional Relational Operations:
Aggregate Functions and Grouping
 A type of request that cannot be expressed in the basic
relational algebra is to specify mathematical aggregate
functions on collections of values from the database.
 Examples of such functions include retrieving the average
or total salary of all employees or the total number of
employee tuples.
 These functions are used in simple statistical queries that
summarize information from the database tuples.
 Common functions applied to collections of numeric
values include
 SUM, AVERAGE, MAXIMUM, and MINIMUM.
 The COUNT function is used for counting tuples or
values.
Aggregate Function Operation
 Use of the Aggregate Functional operation ℱ
 ℱMAX Salary (EMPLOYEE) retrieves the maximum salary value
from the EMPLOYEE relation
 ℱMIN Salary (EMPLOYEE) retrieves the minimum Salary value
from the EMPLOYEE relation
 ℱSUM Salary (EMPLOYEE) retrieves the sum of the Salary from
the EMPLOYEE relation
 ℱCOUNT SSN, AVERAGE Salary (EMPLOYEE) computes the count
(number) of employees and their average salary
 Note: count just counts the number of rows, without removing
duplicates
Using Grouping with Aggregation
 The previous examples all summarized one or more
attributes for a set of tuples
 Maximum Salary or Count (number of) Ssn
 Grouping can be combined with Aggregate Functions
 Example: For each department, retrieve the DNO,
COUNT SSN, and AVERAGE SALARY
 A variation of aggregate operation ℱ allows this:
 Grouping attribute placed to left of symbol
 Aggregate functions to right of symbol
DNO ℱCOUNT SSN, AVERAGE Salary (EMPLOYEE)

 Above operation groups employees by DNO (department


number) and computes the count of employees and
average salary per department
Example: For each department, retrieve the DNO,
COUNT SSN, and AVERAGE SALARY
Example :Try to do

 For each employee , retrieve his Essn , and the total of working hours .

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