Advanced Database Systems: 10th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 10 Aberdeen, Scotland, July 6–8, 1992 Proceedings [1 ed.] 3540556931, 9783540556930

Table of contents :
The promise of distributed computing and the challenges of legacy systems....Pages 1-28
Object oriented requirements capture and analysis — The ORCA project....Pages 29-41
A model for versioning of classes in object-oriented databases....Pages 42-58
A Storage manager for the Hypernode model....Pages 59-77
Views and formal implementation in a three-level schema architecture for dynamic objects....Pages 78-95
The meiko computing surface: A parallel & scalable open systems platform for Oracle....Pages 96-114
A study of a parallel database machine and its performance the NCR/Teradata DBC/1012....Pages 115-137
Control of a large massively parallel database machine using sQL catalogue extensions, and a DSDL in preference to an operating system....Pages 138-155
Integration of modal logic and the functional data model....Pages 156-174
The Raleigh activity model: Integrating versions, concurrency, and access control....Pages 175-191
A graphical data modelling program with constraint specification and management....Pages 192-208
Association merging in a schema metaintegration system for a heterogeneous Object-Oriented database environment....Pages 209-226
Generating active rules from high-level specifications....Pages 227-243
Employing integrity constraints for query modification and intensional answer generation in multi-database systems....Pages 244-260