This paper is concerned with a transformation-based approach to update propagation in an extended version of Codd’s relational algebra which allows for defining derived relatio...
The Pathfinder project makes inventive use of relational database technology--originally developed to process data of strictly tabular shape--to construct efficient database-suppo...
A database schema should be able to evolve to reflect changes to the universe it represents. In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during complex schema transformation...
The richer data models of object relational databases opens many more options for the logical design of a database schema increasing the complexity of logical database design enorm...
ct The backbone of the XML data model, namely ordered, unranked trees, is inherently recursive and it is natural to equip the associated languages with constructs that can query su...