Specifying Connections for a Universal Relation Scheme Database

Summary: URSA, a universal relation scheme DB, imposes a unique attr-level connection across relations, controlled by object-based mechanisms. Constraints on attributes propagate; derived connections are by the involved attributes, with [X] as the window. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2224
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 6.9945541e-05
Overall Rank: 3,957 | 72.86%
DOI: 10.1145/582353.582355

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Maier (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
2. David S. Warren (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{maier_sigmod82,
        title = {{Specifying Connections for a Universal Relation Scheme Database}},
        author = {Maier, David and Warren, David S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '82},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582353.582355},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582353.582355},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
538	Non First Normal Form Relations To Represent Hierarchically Organized Data	1984	PODS	0.00016919845
2,289	Windows On The World	1983	SIGMOD	8.7994393e-05
3,884	Inclusion Dependencies and the Universal Instance	1983	PODS	7.0480285e-05
4,267	Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations	1982	SIGMOD	6.7929169e-05
5,033	Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach	1983	VLDB	6.3934244e-05
7,132	Optimal Computation of Total Projections with Unions of Simple Chase Join Expressions	1984	SIGMOD	5.694968e-05
9,260	The Revenge Of The Jd	1983	PODS	5.2970277e-05
13,208	Relaxing the Universal Relation Scheme Assumption	1985	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
266	Can We Use The Universal Instance Assumption Without Using Nulls?	1981	SIGMOD	0.00022823892
1,577	Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation	1982	PODS	0.00010310871
4,267	Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations	1982	SIGMOD	6.7929169e-05

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