On Kent's "Consequences of Assuming a Universal Relation".

@article{DBLP:journals/tods/Ullman83a,
  author    = {Jeffrey D. Ullman},
  title     = {On Kent's "Consequences of Assuming a Universal Relation"},
  journal   = {ACM Trans. Database Syst.},
  volume    = {8},
  number    = {4},
  year      = {1983},
  pages     = {637-643},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/319996.320017, db/journals/tods/Ullman83a.html},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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Referenced by

1. Jeffrey D. Ullman: Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems, Volume II. Computer Science Press 1989, ISBN 0-7167-8162-X
   Contents
2. 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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