Re: Q: ISSUE-42 bNode semantics

A slightly more expressive but very interesting case would be relational combinations of CQs (namely union, intersection, difference of CQs).
--e.

On 21 May 2011, at 16:40, Enrico Franconi wrote:

> Personally I believe that is is already an achievement to cover conjunctive queries, namely select-project-join / positive select-from-where (SQL) and BGPs (SPARQL).
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> On 21 May 2011, at 16:23, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
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>> On 20 May 2011, at 23:04, Enrico Franconi wrote:
>>>> Your argument hinges on a claim that one proposal is correct, and another is incorrect. Can you state the criteria that an RDB2RDF mapping has to fulfill so that you consider it correct and complete?
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>>> As I say in the wiki, I consider the query answering (QA) problem. A translation from data and queries in RDB/SQL to RDF/SPARQL is sound whenever any tuple returned in the translated QA problem is also returned in the original QA problem; it is complete if any tuple returned in the original QA problem is also returned in the translated QA problem.
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>> What expressivity of queries does the translation of queries have to cover? SPARQL, SQL or something else?
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>> Thanks,
>> Richard
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