Re: Oracle relational algebra support?

You know, the standard relational algebra operations:

select
(restrict),project,union,intersection,cross-product,division,join,natural-jo in...

Van Messner <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote in message news:aKGN5.15203$mC.960951_at_monger.newsread.com...
> What do you mean by "relational algebra"? Oracle supports various
> arithmetic operators (+ - / *) and set operators MINUS, UNION, INTERSECT
 and
> logical operators (not, and, or) in SQL*Plus.
>
>
> "ColinR" <colinrei_at_oz.net> wrote in message
> news:t0e8a8fvjeue12_at_corp.supernews.com...
> > Is there such a thing (add-on?) available? (esp. for the Oracl 8.x
 personal
> > edition?)
> >
> > I'm a student studying database systems and we're doing relational
> > algebra/calculus and I heard something about Oracle having support for
> > querying using relational algebra syntax, but haven't been able to find
 any
> > facts to corroborate this...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Colin Reinhardt
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 07 2000 - 00:00:37 CST