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Dependency Satisfaction in Databases with Incomplete Information.

Gösta Grahne: Dependency Satisfaction in Databases with Incomplete Information. VLDB 1984: 37-45
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  author    = {G{\"o}sta Grahne},
  editor    = {Umeshwar Dayal and
               Gunter Schlageter and
               Lim Huat Seng},
  title     = {Dependency Satisfaction in Databases with Incomplete Information},
  booktitle = {Tenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               27-31, 1984, Singapore, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1984},
  isbn      = {0-934613-16-8},
  pages     = {37-45},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/Grahne84.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/84},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

Two of the major problems raised by information incompleteness in databases are how to evaluate queries and how to take data dependencies into account. We give a unified solution of these two intermingled problems for the relational model. Formal criteria for the correctness of the relational algebra and dependency satisfaction are presented. We give a correct redefinition of the complete relational algebra and present a method, called a chase, for enforcing a set of functional and full join dependencies on a relation with null-values of type "value exists, but is presently unknown". This novel chase can also be regarded as a generalization of previously known chase methods. The title of the paper reflects the emphasis of its contribution.

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Umeshwar Dayal, Gunter Schlageter, Lim Huat Seng (Eds.): Tenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 27-31, 1984, Singapore, Proceedings. Morgan Kaufmann 1984, ISBN 0-934613-16-8
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