Abstract:We extend the result on the equivalence between functional and multivalued dependencies in relational databases and a fragment of propositional logic. It is shown that this equivalence still holds for functional and multivalued dependencies in databases that support complex values via nesting of records and lists. The equivalence has several implications. Firstly, it extends a well-known result from relational databases to databases which are not in first normal form. Secondly, it characterises the implication… Show more
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