GATE | IT | 2008 | DBMS | Functional Dependency | Question 59

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Let R (A, B, C, D) be a relational schema with the following functional dependencies:

A → B, B → C,
C → D and D → B.

The decomposition of R into
(A, B), (B, C), (B, D)

gives a lossless join, and is dependency preserving

gives a lossless join, but is not dependency preserving

does not give a lossless join, but is dependency preserving

does not give a lossless join and is not dependency preserving

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