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RDBMS have certain limitations, as addressed in Section 2.2, which concern knowledge processing, in general. This chapter proposes a new approach, introducing a flexible and easy way to extend knowledge processing capabilities of RDBMS. The extension is based on coupling the Prolog inference engine with the Relational Database Management System. The issues, this chapter deals with, were also presented in [29,28].