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On the expressive power of semijoin queries

Dirk Leinders, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Jan Van den Bussche

cs.DBarXiv:cs/0308014

Abstract

The semijoin algebra is the variant of the relational algebra obtained by replacing the join operator by the semijoin operator. We provide an Ehrenfeucht-Fraissé game, characterizing the discerning power of the semijoin algebra. This game gives a method for showing that queries are not expressible in the semijoin algebra.

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