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Transactions in Relational Databases (Preliminary Report).

Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu: Transactions in Relational Databases (Preliminary Report). VLDB 1984: 46-56
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  author    = {Serge Abiteboul and
               Victor Vianu},
  editor    = {Umeshwar Dayal and
               Gunter Schlageter and
               Lim Huat Seng},
  title     = {Transactions in Relational Databases (Preliminary Report)},
  booktitle = {Tenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               27-31, 1984, Singapore, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1984},
  isbn      = {0-934613-16-8},
  pages     = {46-56},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/AbiteboulV84.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/84},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

A large class of relational database update transactions is investigated with respect to equivalence and optimization. Several basic results are obtained. It is shown that transaction equivalence can be decided in polynomial time. A number of optimality criteria for transactions are then proposed, as well as two normal forms. Polynomial algorithms for transaction optimization and normalization are exhibited. Also, an intuitively appealing system of axioms for proving transaction equivalence is introduced. Finally, a simple, natural subclass of transactions, called 2-acyclic, is shown to have particularly desirable properties.

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Umeshwar Dayal, Gunter Schlageter, Lim Huat Seng (Eds.): Tenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 27-31, 1984, Singapore, Proceedings. Morgan Kaufmann 1984, ISBN 0-934613-16-8
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Referenced by

  1. Dino Karabeg, Victor Vianu: Simplification Rules and Complete Axiomatization for Relational Update Transactions. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 16(3): 439-475(1991)
  2. Ken-Chih Liu, Rajshekhar Sunderraman: A Generalized Relational Model for Indefinite and Maybe Information. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 3(1): 65-77(1991)
  3. Ken-Chih Liu, Rajshekhar Sunderraman: On Representing Indefinite and Maybe Information in Relational Databases: A Generalization. ICDE 1990: 495-502
  4. Victor Vianu, Gottfried Vossen: Goal-Oriented Concurrency Control. MFDBS 1989: 398-414
  5. Victor Vianu, Gottfried Vossen: Conceptual Level Concurrency Control of Relational Update Transactions. ICDT 1988: 353-367
  6. Ken-Chih Liu, Rajshekhar Sunderraman: On Representing Indefinite and Maybe Information in Relational Databases. ICDE 1988: 250-257
  7. Almira Karabeg, Dino Karabeg, Kostoula Papakonstantinou, Victor Vianu: Axiomatization and Simplification Rules for Relational Transactions. PODS 1987: 254-259
  8. Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu: A Transcation Language Complete for Database Update and Specification. PODS 1987: 260-268
  9. Joachim Biskup, Uwe Räsch: The Equivalence Problem For Relational Database Schemes. MFDBS 1987: 42-70
  10. Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu: Deciding Properties of Transactional Schemas. PODS 1986: 235-239
  11. Serge Abiteboul, Gösta Grahne: Update Semantics for Incomplete Databases. VLDB 1985: 1-12
  12. Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu: Transactions and Integrity Constraints. PODS 1985: 193-204
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