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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Databases 1 a i Solution by
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First use relational selection to keep the Saab cars, then a natural join to find their sales, and finally a relational join to identify the corresponding salespeople. A relational projection givesThe foreign keys ensure that every sale has the referenced car and salesperson. Several qualifying sales by the same person produce just one occurrence of their name under set semantics. Two distinct people with the same name also yield that name only once: this is the requested relational projection onto names.
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