Object normal forms and dependency constraints for object-oriented schemata.

We address the development of a normalization theory for object-oriented data models that have common features to support objects. We first provide an extension of functional dependencies to cope with the richer semantics of relationships between objects, called path dependency, local dependency, an...

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Published in:ACM transactions on database systems. 22, 4 (1997).
Main Author: Tari, Zahir
Other Authors: Stokes, John, Spaccapietra, Stefano
Format: Article
Language:English
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