Generation of symbolic objects from relational databases
A relational database is a collection of tables, also called relations in the database community. A relational table is structured like a classical data matrix. A fundamental difference between a relational table and a classical data matrix is that rows of a relational table are unlabeled, and therefore indistinguishable if they show the same values for all columns. If a label has to be associated with each row, this label must be defined in an additional column. In the relational database context, columns are called attributes and rows are called tuples. Operations can be defined on tables which produce new tables. Queries on a relational database are defined by a combination of these operations. Consequently, the result of a query has also the structure of a table. The standard language for querying relational databases is the SQL language. In this chapter an approach is presented which enables to build arrays of assertions from the contents of a relational database. In particular, different SQL queries are submitted to the database in order to construct these assertions. Once the array of assertions has been built, all variables describing the assertions are associated with an SQL query. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1039.62501].
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