Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations
Summary: Relation-free query language for logical data independence: tuple variables bind to a view defined by the attribute set X, not to specific relations. Attributes carry semantics; implicit binding makes and/or/not meaningful, yielding a compact, natural, attribute-centric language for decomposed schemas. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. D. Maier (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
- 2. D. Rozenshtein (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
- 3. S. Salveter (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
- 4. J. Stein (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
- 5. D. S. Warren (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{maier_sigmod82,
title = {{Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations}},
author = {Maier, D. and Rozenshtein, D. and Salveter, S. and Stein, J. and Warren, D. S.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '82},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/582353.582362},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582353.582362},
year = {1982}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,289 | Windows On The World | 1983 | SIGMOD | 8.7994393e-05 |
| 3,884 | Inclusion Dependencies and the Universal Instance | 1983 | PODS | 7.0480285e-05 |
| 3,957 | Specifying Connections for a Universal Relation Scheme Database | 1982 | SIGMOD | 6.9945541e-05 |
| 5,033 | Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach | 1983 | VLDB | 6.3934244e-05 |
| 9,260 | The Revenge Of The Jd | 1983 | PODS | 5.2970277e-05 |
| 13,172 | DYNAMIC QUERY INTERPRETATION IN RELATIONAL DATABASES (Extended abstract) | 1987 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,193 | On the Properties and Characterisation of Connection-trap-free Schemes (Extended Abstract) | 1986 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,208 | Relaxing the Universal Relation Scheme Assumption | 1985 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,219 | A High-Level User Interface for Update and Retrieval in Relational Databases - Language Aspects | 1985 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,957 | Specifying Connections for a Universal Relation Scheme Database | 1982 | SIGMOD | 6.9945541e-05 |
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