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Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface

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Advances in Databases (BNCOD 1995)

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We propose a conceptual approach to defining interfaces to databases which uses the features of a fully object oriented data language to specify interface objects combined with database objects. This achieves a uniform, natural way of describing databases and their interfaces. It is shown how this language can be used in the role of data definition and, when combined with interface classes, in the definition of database interfaces. A prototype developed to test this approach is presented.

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  1. Computer Studies Department, Napier University, Canal Court, 42 Craiglockhart Avenue, EH14 1LT, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Kenneth J. Mitchell, Jessie B. Kennedy & Peter J. Barclay

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Mitchell, K.J., Kennedy, J.B., Barclay, P.J. (1995). Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface. In: Goble, C., Keane, J. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000543

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