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...
The relational data model is based on sets of tuples, i.e. it does not allow duplicate tuples in a relation. Many database languages and systems do require multi-set place, the hi...