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stowellt_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Out of curiousity, I have seen data sets where
> there is a join dependency due to a cyclic constraint, but I'm not sure
> what exactly constitutes a cyclic constraint. I thought my dataset had
> one, but apparently not. How does one go about determining a cyclic
> constraint?
Do you want to know how to recognize if a certain join dependency holds, or do you want to know how to check if a certain JD that you found is cyclic? But first, perhaps, is it precisly clear to you what a JD is?
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