Collections of Objects in SQL3

Summary: Extends SQL3 with object-valued collections, supporting abstract types, multiple inheritance, and dynamic polymorphism. Models sets and lists as table subtypes, enabling set-at-a-time SQL operations over multisets of objects. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8321
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 6.2709843e-05
Overall Rank: 5,309 | 63.58%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. David Beech (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@article{beech_vldb93,
        title = {{Collections of Objects in SQL3}},
        author = {Beech, David},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '93},
        pages = {244--253},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,558	SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems	1996	VLDB	0.00010366362
2,825	Towards an Effective Calculus for Object Query Languages	1995	SIGMOD	8.0869692e-05
12,935	nD-SQL: A Multi-dimensional Language for Interoperability and OLAP	1998	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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

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