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A Model to Represent Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) on SQL Databases

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Addressing the general problem of representing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in SQL databases
The use of the adjacency list method, augmented with addition of transitive closure rows, enables standard SQL to be used with a model of Directed Acyclic Graphs. However, some additional disk space and additional insertion time are required.

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