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The Database Language GEM

Summary: Introduces GEM, a general-purpose query/update language for the DSIS semantic ER data model. Extends QUEL with surrogates, aggregation, generalization, nulls, and set-valued attributes to encode ER semantics in a relational core. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2224
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1983
Pagerank
0.00060795269
Overall Rank
68 | 99.53%
DOI
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528 Database Relations with Null Values (Extended Abstract) 1982 PODS 0.0002084153
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