However, if the values shown in the Staff relation of Figure 13.2 simply represent a set of values for staffNo and sName attributes at a given moment in time, then we are not so interested in such relationships between attributes. The reason is that we want to identify functional dependencies that hold for all possible values for attributes of a relation as these represent the types of integrity constraints that we need to identify. Such constraints indi- cate the limitations on the values that a relation can legitimately assume.