The JOIN Operation
6.3.1 The JOIN Operation
The JOIN operation, denoted by , is used to combine related tuples from two rela- tions into single “longer” tuples. This operation is very important for any relational database with more than a single relation because it allows us to process relation- ships among relations. To illustrate JOIN , suppose that we want to retrieve the name of the manager of each department. To get the manager’s name, we need to combine each department tuple with the employee tuple whose Ssn value matches the Mgr_ssn value in the department tuple. We do this by using the JOIN operation and then projecting the result over the necessary attributes, as follows:
DEPT_MGR ← DEPARTMENT
Mgr_ssn = Ssn EMPLOYEE
RESULT ← π Dname , Lname , Fname ( DEPT_MGR ) The first operation is illustrated in Figure 6.6. Note that Mgr_ssn is a foreign key of
the DEPARTMENT relation that references Ssn , the primary key of the EMPLOYEE relation. This referential integrity constraint plays a role in having matching tuples in the referenced relation EMPLOYEE .
The JOIN operation can be specified as a CARTESIAN PRODUCT operation followed by a SELECT operation. However, JOIN is very important because it is used very fre- quently when specifying database queries. Consider the earlier example illustrating CARTESIAN PRODUCT , which included the following sequence of operations:
EMP_DEPENDENTS ← EMPNAMES × DEPENDENT
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DEPT_MGR Dname
Ssn ... Research
Dnumber
Mgr_ssn
E Borg
Figure 6.6
Result of the JOIN operation DEPT_MGR ← DEPARTMENT Mgr_ssn=Ssn EMPLOYEE.
These two operations can be replaced with a single JOIN operation as follows:
ACTUAL_DEPENDENTS ← EMPNAMES
Ssn = Essn DEPENDENT The general form of a JOIN operation on two relations 5 R(A 1 ,A 2 , ..., A n ) and S(B 1 ,
B 2 , ..., B m ) is
<join condition> S
The result of the JOIN is a relation Q with n + m attributes Q(A 1 ,A 2 , ..., A n ,B 1 ,B 2 , ... , B m ) in that order; Q has one tuple for each combination of tuples—one from R and one from S—whenever the combination satisfies the join condition. This is the main difference between CARTESIAN PRODUCT and JOIN . In JOIN , only combina- tions of tuples satisfying the join condition appear in the result, whereas in the CARTESIAN PRODUCT all combinations of tuples are included in the result. The join condition is specified on attributes from the two relations R and S and is evalu- ated for each combination of tuples. Each tuple combination for which the join condition evaluates to TRUE is included in the resulting relation Q as a single com- bined tuple.
A general join condition is of the form <condition> AND <condition> AND ...AND <condition>
where each <condition> is of the form A i θ B j ,A i is an attribute of R, B j is an attrib- ute of S, A i and B j have the same domain, and θ (theta) is one of the comparison operators {=, <, ≤, >, ≥, ≠}. A JOIN operation with such a general join condition is called a THETA JOIN . Tuples whose join attributes are NULL or for which the join condition is FALSE do not appear in the result. In that sense, the JOIN operation does not necessarily preserve all of the information in the participating relations, because tuples that do not get combined with matching ones in the other relation do not appear in the result.
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