Re: Basic question?What 's the key if there 's no FD(Functional Dependencies)?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:07:54 GMT
Message-ID: <K_02h.13017$cz.216303@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Godspeed wrote:
> <saturnlee_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>I have a basic question.
>>Suppose there are 3 attributes: A,B and C.
>>And there are no FD(trivial and non trivial )
>>
>>What 's the key for it? ABC or nothing???

>
> It's either {ABC} or {D} where D is an artificial identifier (e.g. a
> sequence number).

The introduction of an additional attribute has no effect whatsoever on the keys of the existing relation. All you have done is introduce functional dependencies: D <-> ABC Received on Wed Nov 01 2006 - 07:07:54 CST