I am little bit confused about the CLOSURE OF A SET-OF-FUNCTIONAL-DEPENDENCIES .
If I am given a set of Functional dependencies F, then how the F+ is defined ?
- Is it defined as the union of the closures of LHS of each of FD within F
- Or is it calculated as set of all valid functional dependencies (including the additional functional dependencies - which are calculated from inference rules)
I am following Navathe 6th edition and here they have given procedure to calculate the closure of LHS of FD within a set of FD's, however, I did not find any procedure to find out the closure of the set of FDs.
Thank You