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High Level Data Base Query Languages

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Logic and Data Bases

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The paper presents a general framework for comparing high-level non-procedural query languages for the relational model of data. The principal language features are presented as modifications of operations in the first-order predicate calculus. These modifications suggest a classification of the retrieval operations of eleven existing relational

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  1. MBLE Research Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium

    Alain Pirotte

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  1. Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Hervé Gallaire

  2. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

    Jack Minker

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Pirotte, A. (1980). High Level Data Base Query Languages. In: Gallaire, H., Minker, J. (eds) Logic and Data Bases. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3384-5_15

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