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I think we have a discussion today; not a debate. Its real purpose is to increase our understanding of the basic concepts underlying data base structures and their models; to note the similarities and differences between them, and to determine their ...

The objectives and strategies of the relational and network approaches are compared. The status of support for non-programming users is examined. General purpose support for such users entails provision of an augmented relationally complete retrieval ...

Practitioners of data base technology have been somewhat confused by the many different systems for describing and manipulating data. The two major approaches that have emerged may be termed the relational or set theoretic, and the data structured or ...

I will be drawing a lot of my material from the application programming paper by Chris Date and Ted Codd. It's an excellent paper and I suggest you read it. The major focus of my talk and most of the arguments I'll be presenting have to do with a ...

For some time now there has been considerable debate in the field of database systems over the fundamental question of the underlying design philosophy of such a system. The controversy has centered on the structure of the programmer interface, though ...

How tall are men in Edinburgh? The interesting thing about that query is when one considers how one applies it, or how it is applied to a data base. In this particular example let us suppose that the data base represents the population of Scotland. I ...