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SOFSEM '95: Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM 1995)

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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, a significant proportion of database research activity has been directed towards extending the modelling and programming facilities supported by database systems. This paper looks into the motivation for such activity, characterises and summarises representative proposals for extensions, and presents a concrete example of a database system incorporating a range of advanced features.

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Paton, N.W. (1995). Extending database technology. In: Bartosek, M., Staudek, J., Wiedermann, J. (eds) SOFSEM '95: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60609-2_8

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