Efficiently Finding Supersets In MySQL Vs SPL
MySQL database has tables for bags & item relationships. Finding supersets requires complex SQL queries with JOINs & EXISTS. SPL simplifies this using 2-layer loops & intuitive set operations.
The MySQL database has two tables: bag table and bag item relationship table. Some bags are supersets of other bags. bag bag_item Now we need to find the superset for each bag: SQL: SELECT base.id AS base_bag_id, s.id AS superset_bag_id FROM bag base JOIN bag s ON s.id <> base.id AND NOT EXiSTS (SELECT 1 FROM bag_item bi WHERE bi.bag_id = base.id AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM bag_item si WHERE si.item_id = bi.item_id AND si.bag_id = s.id ) ); Two layers of loop traversal are required here, and SQL requires thr...