A Generalized Access Path Model And Its Application To A Relational Data Base System
Summary: Introduces APPLE, a non-procedural query language by attribute names, shifting path selection to the system. Presents automatic path derivation with examples and discusses problems and techniques for implementing generalized access-path modeling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. C. Robert Carlson (Northwestern University)
- 2. Robert S. Kaplan (Northwestern University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{carlson_sigmod76,
title = {{A GENERALIZED ACCESS PATH MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO A RELATIONAL DATA BASE SYSTEM}},
author = {Carlson, C. Robert and Kaplan, Robert S.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '76},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/509383.509403},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509383.509403},
year = {1976}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,537 | Assumptions in Relational Database Theory | 1982 | PODS | 0.00010460647 |
| 2,289 | Windows On The World | 1983 | SIGMOD | 8.7994393e-05 |
| 5,033 | Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach | 1983 | VLDB | 6.3934244e-05 |
| 5,723 | Constructing Queries from Tokens | 1986 | SIGMOD | 6.1088523e-05 |
| 7,120 | An Algorithm For Servicing Multi-Relational Queries | 1977 | SIGMOD | 5.6970022e-05 |
| 7,132 | Optimal Computation of Total Projections with Unions of Simple Chase Join Expressions | 1984 | SIGMOD | 5.694968e-05 |
| 13,258 | High-Level Navigational Facilities for Network and Relational Databases | 1983 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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