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From Alpha Beta
Subject subset of attributes
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Responses Re: subset of attributes  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
Re: subset of attributes  ("David Johnston" <polobo@yahoo.com>)
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Hi,

while reading about databases, I didn't understand what can be subset of attributes, see the following :

Let Ri (Xi) be a relation sheme, where Xi is a set of attributes. and if t is a tuple  for Ri (Xi) and Y is a subset of Xi, then t[Y] denote the subtuple of t corresponding to Y.

does a subset of attributes just means the instances that exist in each tuple?

Best,

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