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Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach.

Joachim Biskup, Hans Hermann Brüggemann: Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach. VLDB 1983: 172-185
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  author    = {Joachim Biskup and
               Hans Hermann Br{\"u}ggemann},
  editor    = {Mario Schkolnick and
               Costantino Thanos},
  title     = {Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach},
  booktitle = {9th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, October
               31 - November 2, 1983, Florence, Italy, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1983},
  isbn      = {0-934613-15-X},
  pages     = {172-185},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/BiskupB83.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/83},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

A universal relation view is a view (external schema) on top of a relational database schema (conceptual schema). It shows the whole database as a single fictitious universal relation. It provides a user-friendly interface where queries can be expressed without navigation, even on the level of relations, as far as possible. We carefully develop the fundamental decisions of our approach: different kinds of users should have a consistent understanding of the view; the underlying database schema should satisfy a new desirable property called unambiguity. Besides unambiguity and the so-called universal scheme assumption our approach does not rely on any further prerequisites.

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Mario Schkolnick, Costantino Thanos (Eds.): 9th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, October 31 - November 2, 1983, Florence, Italy, Proceedings. Morgan Kaufmann 1983, ISBN 0-934613-15-X
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