Extending the database relational model to capture more meaning

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1979, Pages 397-434

  Codd, E F ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual model; conceptual schema; data model; data semantics; database; database schema; entity model; knowledge base; knowledge representation; relatinal database; relation; relational model; relational schema; semantic model

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0018705521     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/320107.320109     Document Type: Article

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