Specifying Connections for a Universal Relation Scheme Database

Summary: URSA, a universal relation scheme DB, imposes a unique attr-level connection across relations, controlled by object-based mechanisms. Constraints on attributes propagate; derived connections are by the involved attributes, with [X] as the window. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha82ac4e3efe15d08
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 6.8133255e-05
Overall Rank: 4,060 | 72.79%
DOI: 10.1145/582353.582355

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Maier (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
2. David S. Warren (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{maier_sigmod82,
        title = {{Specifying Connections for a Universal Relation Scheme Database}},
        author = {Maier, David and Warren, David S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '82},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582353.582355},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582353.582355},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
551	Non First Normal Form Relations To Represent Hierarchically Organized Data	1984	PODS	0.00016502064
2,359	Windows On The World	1983	SIGMOD	8.5695356e-05
3,987	Inclusion Dependencies and the Universal Instance	1983	PODS	6.8641905e-05
4,380	Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations	1982	SIGMOD	6.6154352e-05
5,178	Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach	1983	VLDB	6.2265334e-05
7,301	Optimal Computation of Total Projections with Unions of Simple Chase Join Expressions	1984	SIGMOD	5.5461529e-05
9,471	The Revenge Of The Jd	1983	PODS	5.1586111e-05
13,545	Relaxing the Universal Relation Scheme Assumption	1985	PODS	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
284	Can We Use The Universal Instance Assumption Without Using Nulls?	1981	SIGMOD	0.00022229787
1,595	Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation	1982	PODS	0.00010101042
4,380	Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations	1982	SIGMOD	6.6154352e-05

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