All Cases for Default Mapping

In the paper Translating SQL Applications to the Semantic Web, the authors state as a theorem "the space of relations describable in SQL DDL using various combina- tions of primary key and foreign key references between the relations can be partitioned into 10 disjoint cases of key combinations." We now present all the 10 possible cases.

Relation only has a Primary Key @@single attribute PK?@@

Trivial

Relation only has a Composite Primary Key

Primary keys may also be composite. If the primary key for Department were (name, city), the identifier for that first (only) tuple would be

 <http://foo.example/DB/Department/name.Accounting_city.Cambridge#_>.

Relation only has a Foreign Key

Trivial

Relation has at least two or more Foreign Keys

Trivial

Relation has a Primary Key and only one Foreign Key

Foreign Key is the Primary Key

Primary-is-foreign Key Exception: If the primary key is also a foreign key K to relation R:

• The shared subject is the subject node of the referenced tuple in R.
• The foreign key K generates no reference triple.
• Even if K is a single-attribute foreign key, it generates a literal triple.

@@issue — what is the primary key is an exact rearrangement of the foreign key? (needs discussion)

Foreign Key and the Primary Key do not share any attributes

trivial

Relation has a Primary Key and two (2) Foreign Keys

the Foreign Key and the Primary Key do not share any attributes

Trivial

one of the Foreign Keys is also the Primary Key

Not addressed

Relation has a Primary Key and more than two (> 2) Foreign Keys

Foreign Key and the Primary Key do not share any attributes

Trivial

one of the Foreign Keys is also the Primary Key

Not addressed

Relation has a Composite Primary Key and only one Foreign Key

Foreign Key and the Primary Key do not share any attributes

trivial

Foreign Key is part of the Primary Key

not addressed

Relation has a Composite Primary Key and two (2) Foreign Keys

the Foreign Keys and the Primary Key do not share any attributes

trivial

All the Foreign Keys are part of the Primary Key

not addressed

Should be the many-to-many Relation

Foreign Keys and Primary Key share common attributes

not addressed

Relation has a Composite Primary Key and more than two (> 2) Foreign Keys

the Foreign Keys and the Primary Key do not share any attributes

trivial

All the Foreign Keys are part of the Primary Key

not addressed

Foreign Keys and Primary Key share common attributes

not addressed