A Pragmatic Approach to Structured Database Design

Summary: Introduces modular database design to manage schema complexity and enforce integrity constraints. Separates DBMS-independent specification from SQL/DS implementation, using extension and novel subsumption constructors plus module graphs to support reuse and operation redefinition. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hf140495068c8beca
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 5.8337242e-05
Overall Rank: 6,255 | 57.95%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Luiz Tucherman (International Business Machines do Brasil; Latin American Systems Research Institute)
2. Antonio L. Furtado (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
3. Marco A. Casanova (Centro Cientifico de Brasilia; International Business Machines do Brasil)

BibTeX Citation

@article{tucherman_vldb83,
        title = {{A Pragmatic Approach to Structured Database Design}},
        author = {Tucherman, Luiz and Furtado, Antonio L. and Casanova, Marco A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '83},
        pages = {219--228},
        year = {1983}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,906	Choosing a View Update Translator by Dialog at View Definition Time	1986	VLDB	7.8777069e-05
6,391	From XML view updates to relational view updates: old solutions to a new problem	2004	VLDB	5.800896e-05
9,880	Understanding the implications of view update policies	1985	VLDB	5.1176637e-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
1,208	Towards a Sound View Integration Methodology	1983	PODS	0.00011538101
1,808	A Methodology for View Integration in Logical Database Design	1982	VLDB	9.5944213e-05
2,312	On the Algebraic Specification of Databases	1982	VLDB	8.6557402e-05

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