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      Query Language Primitives for Programming with Incomplete Databases

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      Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL-5)
      Database Programming Languages
      6-8 September 1995
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            We study the problem of choosing a suitable collection of primitives for querying databases with disjunctive information. Theoretical foundations for querying such databases have been developed in [11, 12]. The main tool for querying disjunctive information has come to be known under the name of normalization. In this paper we show how these theoretical results can lead to practical languages for querying databases with disjunctive information. We discuss a collection of primitives that one may want to add to a language in order to be able to ask a variety of queries over incomplete databases (including existential and optimization queries). We describe a new practical and easily implementable technique for partial normalization, and show how to combine it with the known technique for space-e cient normalization. As the result, we demonstrate that with very little extra added to the language, one can express a variety of primitives using just one general polynomial-space iterator. We discuss some practical implications, including nondeterminism of the resulting language, and the implementation project.

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            September 1995
            September 1995
            : 1-13
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            [0001]Bell Laboratories

            600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA
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            10.14236/ewic/DBPL1995.19
            ed749a78-83a3-418d-a450-fed3f674116d
            © Leonid Libkin. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages, Gubbio, Umbria, Italy

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            Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages
            DBPL-5
            5
            Gubbio, Umbria, Italy
            6-8 September 1995
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Database Programming Languages
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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