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An approach for a working relational data system

Published: 01 December 1972 Publication History

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Users of large data bases and applications programs which access them must be prevented from having to know how the information they access is organized internally. On the other hand, systems programmers must be allowed to arrange the data base in some way which is both natural and convenient to them.This paper proposes a system which acts as an interface between a user or an applications program, and a data base which consists of multiple files of differing types. The system handles all requests for data, and returns the results in a standard way. The most important feature of this system is that it presents a standard view of data that is highly independent of its machine representation.

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Codd, E. F. A Relational Modes of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. Comm. ACM 13, 6 (June 1970), 377--387.
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Armenti, A., Galley, S., et al. LISTAR - Lincoln Information Storage and Associative Retrieval System. Proc. AFIPS SJCC, 1970. 313--322.
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Codasyl Systems Committee Technical Report. A Survey of Generalized Data Base Management Systems. New York, Codasyl, 1969.
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Codasyl Systems Committee Technical Report. Feature Analysis of Generalized Data Base Management Systems. New York, Codasyl, 1971.

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cover image ACM SIGIR Forum
ACM SIGIR Forum  Volume 7, Issue 4
Winter 1972
74 pages
ISSN:0163-5840
DOI:10.1145/1095495
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 December 1972
Published in SIGIR Volume 7, Issue 4

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