A semantics-based approach to design of query languages for partial information
Author(s) -
Leonid Libkin
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
DOI - 10.1007/bfb0035009
Subject(s) - computer science , semantics (computer science) , syntax , query language , relational algebra , relational database , programming language , context (archaeology) , information retrieval , natural language processing , paleontology , biology
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In this paper a different point of view is advocated. We believe that the semantics of partiality must be clearly understood and it should give us new design principles for languages for databases with partial information.
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