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Osborn, Sylvia
The University of Western Ontario
London, Canada
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On Optimal Site Assignment for Relations in the Distributed Database Environment
Cornell D., Yu P. (ed) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 15(8): 1004-1009, 1989. Type: Article
This paper shows how to optimize relation site assignment and join site selection in a distributed database using linear integer programming. Since these issues are handled as a single optimization problem, the authors have to assume t...
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Aug 1 1990 |
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On estimating the cardinality of the projection of a database relation
Ahad R., Bapa K., McLeod D. (ed) ACM Transactions on Database Systems 14(1): 28-40, 1989. Type: Article
Query optimization is still an active area of database research, not only for relational databases but also for object-oriented databases. Estimating the size of results, be they intermediate or final results, is one of the areas where...
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May 1 1990 |
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Database projects: a framework for effective management
Sherif M., Halsted Press, New York, NY, 1988. Type: Book (9789780470210390)
This book deals with how database projects affect and are affected by the organizational structure of a company. It is divided into three parts. Part 1 reports on a survey of 21 database projects in the U.K. The questions dealt with su...
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Oct 1 1989 |
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Development and implementation of an object-oriented DBMS
Maier D., Stein J., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987. Type: Book (9780262192644)
The field of object-oriented databases combines the ideas of object-oriented programming and database management. Object-oriented programming contributes a rich data model, which allows complex nested structures and class hierarchies w...
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Oct 1 1988 |
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The practitioner’s blueprint for logical and physical database design
Vesely E., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1986. Type: Book (9789780136942672)
This modestly-sized book by Vesely contains a step-by-step guide to database design. The methodology is broken down into the design of the logical database followed by the design of the physical database. Each of these phases is broken...
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Feb 1 1988 |
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Bidirectional mapping between a user-oriented conceptual schema and a target logical schema: the ACS
Akinyokun O., Stocker P., Borges M. Proceedings of the fourth British national conference on databases (BNCOD 4) (, Univ. of Keele, UK, 1301985. Type: Proceedings
This paper discusses a mapping from a user-oriented conceptual schema, designed with the Active and Passive Component Modeling (ACM/PCM) technique, to an internal logical schema called the Abstracted Conceptual Schema (ACS). A conventi...
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Aug 1 1986 |
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A case study of database design using the DATAID approach
De Antonellis V., Di Leva A. Information Systems 10(3): 339-359, 1985. Type: Article
This paper describes in detail a case study involving a database design methodology called DATAID-1, which was described in an earlier paper [1], for use in a banking environment. The case is well chosen and its description is very tho...
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Apr 1 1986 |
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Limitations of concurrency in transaction processing
Franaszek P., Robinson J. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 10(1): 1-28, 1985. Type: Article
Both analysis and simulations of concurrency control methods for transaction processing are presented in this paper. Given p, the pairwise probability that two transactions conflict, and n, the tot...
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Jan 1 1986 |
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