An Operational Approach To Data Bases

Summary: Model-independent, operational framework treating database updates as the primitive concept. Defines views as sets of updates (operational views) rather than mapping functions, enabling a uniform analysis of view/update semantics and related DB problems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 630
Venue: PODS
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 8.2027885e-05
Overall Rank: 2,737 | 80.97%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. N. Spyratos

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,320	The Size of Projections of Relations Satisfying a Functional Dependency	1982	VLDB	0.0001261772
5,884	Dynamic Constraints And Database Evolution	1983	PODS	5.2881037e-05
9,570	Understanding the implications of view update policies	1985	VLDB	4.3254416e-05
14,303	Information Theoretic Aspects Of Data Bases	1983	PODS	-

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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

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