Choices in Practical Data Design

Summary: Argues that practical data design should expose multiple equivalent representations of application facts rather than produce a single schema. Catalogues design and semantic-model alternatives, linking them to documentation, planning, redundancy management, and interface design. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7738
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 5.7574039e-05
Overall Rank: 6,842 | 53.06%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. W. Kent (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kent_vldb82,
        title = {{Choices in Practical Data Design}},
        author = {Kent, W.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '82},
        pages = {165},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,006	A Formal View Integration Method	1986	SIGMOD	7.8585435e-05
7,956	On the Properties of Extended Inclusion Dependencies	1986	VLDB	5.5181056e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0007727299

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