On the Computational Complexity of Cardinality Constraints in Relational Databases

We show that the problem of determining whether of not a lossless join property holds for a database, in the presence of key dependencies and cardinality constraints on the domains of the attributes is NP-complete.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kanellakis, Paris C.
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148987