Re: Domains as relations

In article <6NTo9.20145$0o4.6299_at_sccrnsc03>, Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote:
>"Jan.Hidders" <hidders_at_hcoss.uia.ac.be> wrote in message
>news:3da308d0$1_at_news.uia.ac.be...
>>
>> For example on how to deal with
>> infinite or "nearly infinite" tables, derived views, et cetera. I can give
>> you some pointers to literature if you want me to.
>
>Please please please please! Books especially.

Books:

 CONSTRAINT DATABASES
 edited by Gabriel Kuper, Leonid Libkin, and Jan Paredaens  Springer Verlag, 2000  

 http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cdb/cdb2000.html

That one of the editors happens to be professor of the group I work in is, er, a coincidence. :-)

Articles:

 Constraint Databases: A Survey (1998)
 Peter Z. Revesz
 Semantics in Databases

 http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/revesz98constraint.html

 Constraint databases: A tutorial introduction (2000)  Jan Van den Bussche
 SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data)

 http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/vandenbussche00constraint.html

Good luck,

• Jan Hidders