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This paper addresses the problem of integrating the update language into a declarative query language. Elementary updates are expressed in a declarative style by means of a constraint language. The constraint logic programming framework is used to provide a declarative query-update language. Its semantics is defined in two steps. In such framework an update query behaves as a transaction. A transactional behaviour of update queries is provided.
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Bertino, E., Martelli, M., Montesi, D. (1993). Modelling Database Updates with Constraint Logic Programming. In: Lipeck, U.W., Thalheim, B. (eds) Modelling Database Dynamics. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3554-8_8
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