Which operation cannot be directly performed using Tuple Relational Calculus,…

2025

Which operation cannot be directly performed using Tuple Relational Calculus, compared to operations on relational tables?

  1. A.

    Projection

  2. B.

    Selection

  3. C.

    Join

  4. D.

    Aggregation

  5. E.

    Cartesian Product

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Correct answer: D

Correct answer: Aggregation.

Tuple Relational Calculus is a declarative query formalism for specifying tuples that satisfy a predicate. Basic relational querying can express selection, projection, joins, and products, but aggregate computations such as sum or count are not part of basic TRC.

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