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ACSC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Domination Normal Form - Decomposing Relational Database Schemas
A common approach in designing relational databases is to start with a universal relation schema, which is then decomposed into multiple subschemas. A good choice of subschemas ca...
Henning Köhler
PODS
2003
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
An information-theoretic approach to normal forms for relational and XML data
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Marcelo Arenas, Leonid Libkin
SSD
1993
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Realms: A Foundation for Spatial Data Types in Database Systems
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
Ralf Hartmut Güting, Markus Schneider
ESWS
2008
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Foundations of RDF Databases
The goal of this paper is to give an overview of the basics of the theory of RDF databases. We provide a formal definition of RDF that includes the features that distinguish this m...
Claudio Gutierrez