Fragments Of Relations

Summary: Models relations built by union and selection on fragments, with update procedures and semantics. Defines access sets (fragment subsets sufficient to produce a relation) and shows fragmentation enables query-time selection via fragment access. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2205
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 4.6287261e-05
Overall Rank: 7,881 | 45.18%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. David Maier
2. Jeffrey D. Ullman

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,070	Solving Implication Problems in Database Applications	1989	SIGMOD	5.2263865e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
317	Distributed Query Processing In A Relational Data Base System	1978	SIGMOD	0.00027980992

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