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Towards the unification of views and versions for object databases

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Object Technologies for Advanced Software (ISOTAS 1993)

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There have been a number of approaches to views and meta-data versioning for object databases. However, the essential similarities between the notions of views and versions have not been adequately explored. This paper introduces the concept of a virtual database to unify these two notions in the object database context. The semantics of virtual databases is presented, and a mechanism for interactively creating and deleting virtual databases and manipulating their schemas and instances is described. The application of the virtual database concept to supporting both views and versions in a unified manner is studied, and its practical utility is examined.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, 90089-0781, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Kwang June Byeon & Dennis McLeod

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Byeon, K.J., McLeod, D. (1993). Towards the unification of views and versions for object databases. In: Nishio, S., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57342-9_75

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