Learning Objectives

  • Describe the purpose of the following relational operators
    • Cartesian product (\(\times\))
    • natural join (\(\bowtie\))
  • Manipulate relational data using the aforementioned operators

How to Complete this Lesson

  1. Read “Data Retrieval From a Relational Database” in Fundamentals of Database Management Systems Chapter 5: The Relational Database Model: Introduction (15–30 minutes)
  2. Attend the class meeting
  3. Complete the practice exercises
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