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Determining when a Structure is a Nested Relation.

Patrick C. Fischer, Dirk Van Gucht: Determining when a Structure is a Nested Relation. VLDB 1985: 171-180
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  author    = {Patrick C. Fischer and
               Dirk Van Gucht},
  editor    = {Alain Pirotte and
               Yannis Vassiliou},
  title     = {Determining when a Structure is a Nested Relation},
  booktitle = {VLDB'85, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 21-23, 1985, Stockholm, Sweden},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1985},
  pages     = {171-180},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/FischerG85.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/85},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Unnormalized relations permit components of tuples to be relation instances themselves instead of atomic values. Such structures do not always represent the restructuring of a flat (1NF) relation. It is shown that for one-level structures (nesting is permitted only over sets of attributes) there is a polynomial time algorithm to determine whether the structure is the result of restructuring a flat relation with a sequence of NEST operations.

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Alain Pirotte, Yannis Vassiliou (Eds.): VLDB'85, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 21-23, 1985, Stockholm, Sweden. Morgan Kaufmann 1985
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