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JIKM
2011
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12 years 7 months ago
Automated Generation of Personal Data Reports from Relational Databases
Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach for extracting personal data and automatically generating Personal Data Reports (PDRs) from relational databases. Such PDRs can be us...
Georgios John Fakas, Ben Cawley, Zhi Cai
EDBT
2011
ACM
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12 years 8 months ago
QueryViz: helping users understand SQL queries and their patterns
We present QueryViz, a novel visualization tool for SQL queries that reduces the time needed to read and understand existing queries. It targets two principal audiences: (i) users...
Jonathan Danaparamita, Wolfgang Gatterbauer
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Update Rewriting and Integrity Constraint Maintenance in a Schema Evolution Support System: PRISM++
Supporting legacy applications when the database schema evolves represents a long-standing challenge of practical and theoretical importance. Recent work has produced algorithms a...
Carlo Curino, Hyun Jin Moon, Alin Deutsch, Carlo Z...
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Updatable and Evolvable Transforms for Virtual Databases
Applications typically have some local understanding of a database schema, a virtual database that may differ significantly from the actual schema of the data where it is stored...
James F. Terwilliger, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David ...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
A perspective for biomedical data integration: Design of databases for flow cytometry
Background: The integration of biomedical information is essential for tackling medical problems. We describe a data model in the domain of flow cytometry (FC) allowing for massiv...
John Drakos, Marina Karakantza, Nicholas C. Zoumbo...
BDA
1993
13 years 5 months ago
Querying and Updating the File
We show how structured data stored in files can benefit from standard database technology and in particular be queried and updated using database languages. We introduce the notio...
Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, Tova Milo
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
HECATAEUS: Regulating Schema Evolution
HECATAEUS is an open-source software tool for enabling impact prediction, what-if analysis, and regulation of relational database schema evolution. We follow a graph theoretic appr...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...
ISMB
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Chado case study: an ontology-based modular schema for representing genome-associated biological information
Motivation: A few years ago, FlyBase undertook to design a new database schema to store Drosophila data. It would fully integrate genomic sequence and annotation data with bibliog...
Chris Mungall, David B. Emmert
DOOD
1995
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Authorization Analysis of Queries in Object-Oriented Databases
Abstract. A simple model for method-based authorization is defined and an algorithm is presented for testing in compile-time whether a given database schema violates authorization...
Hiroyuki Seki, Yasunori Ishihara, Minoru Ito
ER
2007
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Relational Data Tailoring Through View Composition
This paper presents a methodology to derive views over a relational database by applying a sequence of appropriately defined operations to the global schema. Such tailoring and com...
Cristiana Bolchini, Elisa Quintarelli, Rosalba Ros...