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ICDE
2011
IEEE
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12 years 8 months ago
How schema independent are schema free query interfaces?
— Real-world databases often have extremely complex schemas. With thousands of entity types and relationships, each with a hundred or so attributes, it is extremely difficult fo...
Arash Termehchy, Marianne Winslett, Yodsawalai Cho...
CIDR
2011
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12 years 8 months ago
The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions
If you have ever encountered a piece of highly domain-specific business software, you may have noticed that it was largely a graphical front-end to some relational database. You ...
Eirik Bakke, Edward Benson
VLDB
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Schema-Free XQuery
The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
Yunyao Li, Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish
VLDB
1994
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence
Physical data independence is touted as a central feature of modern database systems. Both relational and object-oriented systems, however, force users to frame their queries in t...
Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E....
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
165views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Industrial-Strength Schema Matching
Schema matching identifies elements of two given schemas that correspond to each other. Although there are many algorithms for schema matching, little has been written about build...
Philip A. Bernstein, Sergey Melnik, Michalis Petro...