Versions and Workspaces in Microsoft Repository
Summary: Microsoft Repository provides a versioned workspace layer atop SQL Server with fine-grained objects and relationships. Enables branching/merging, delta storage, checkout/checkin, and single-version views for both versioned and version-unaware apps. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Thomas Bergstraesser (Microsoft)
- 2. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)
- 3. Shankar Pal (Microsoft)
- 4. David Shutt (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bergstraesser_sigmod99,
title = {{Versions and Workspaces in Microsoft Repository}},
author = {Bergstraesser, Thomas and Bernstein, Philip A. and Pal, Shankar and Shutt, David},
series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/304182.304248},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304248},
year = {1999}
}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,408 | A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment | 1986 | VLDB | 0.00010855344 |
| 7,533 | The Microsoft Repository | 1997 | VLDB | 5.6029996e-05 |
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