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Functional dependencies are sometimes referred to as ________(a) Equality generating dependencies(b) Tuple generating dependencies(c) Multi-purpose dependencies(d) None of the mentionedThis question was posed to me in a job interview.My question comes from Decomposition Algorithms in section Relational Database Design of RDBMS

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Correct OPTION is (a) EQUALITY generating DEPENDENCIES

For explanation I would say: Functional dependencies are sometimes referred to as equality generating dependencies because they REQUIRE other tuples of a CERTAIN form to be present in the relation.



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