Inner join produces redundant data (in the previous example: course and course#). To get rid of this duplication:
< stud#, Students.name, course, Courses.name>
(Students ⋈Courses)
Or
R1= Students ⋈Courses
R2= < stud#, Students.name, course, Courses.name>R1
The result is called the natural join of Students andCourses