Updating a Relational Database through a Universal Schema Interface.

Volkert Brosda, Gottfried Vossen: Updating a Relational Database through a Universal Schema Interface. PODS 1985: 66-75

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  author    = {Volkert Brosda and
               Gottfried Vossen},
  title     = {Updating a Relational Database through a Universal Schema Interface},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD Symposium on Principles
               of Database Systems, March 25-27, 1985, Portland, Oregon},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1985},
  isbn      = {0-89791-153-9},
  pages     = {66-75},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/325405.325414, db/conf/pods/BrosdaV85.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/pods/85},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
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Abstract

When a universal schema interface is put on top of a relational database system, users are freed from specifying access paths on a logical level. Previous work on such interfaces has concentrated on providing strategies for processing queries that refer to an imaginary universal relation. We propose a universal schema interface which is also "universal" in that it permits update and retrieval of the underlying database in a quite homogeneous way. We show how to perform insertions and deletions of tuples that are totally defined on certain portions of the universal schema such that the resulting database always has a representative instance, which can then be used for computing connections between attributes.

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Volkert Brosda, Gottfried Vossen: Update and Retrieval in a Relational Database Through a Universal Schema Interface. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 13(4): 449-485(1988)

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