| Integrating Semantic Integrity Constraints into an Object-Oriented Database Management System: A Pragmatic Approach (1993) | |||||||||||||||
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| Although object-oriented data models provide rich language constructs for modelling the domain of discourse, there is a need for additional features in order to restrict the database to legal states. Such language extensions should fit naturally into the formalisms of the data model and should respect object-oriented comforts like encapsulation and inheritance. Furthermore, we want to reuse as much as possible from the existing data definition and data manipulation languages, in order not to burden the application programmer with a total new syntax. As a consequence we introduce a language for semantic integrity constraints that is very small with regard to the number of new language elements. The proposed language does not only obey the principles of object-orientation but additionally is inherently conform to the new structural concepts of object-oriented database systems. We proved the feasibility of our approach by a prototype on top of the commercial objectoriented database manage... | |||||||||||||||
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