Trigger inheritance and overriding in an active object database system

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 588-608

  Bertino, Elisa ^a,b   Guerrini, Giovanna ^c   Merlo, Isabella ^c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inheritance and refinement; Object oriented data models; Triggers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE OBJECT DATABASE SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED DATA MODEL; TRIGGER INHERITANCE; TRIGGER OVERRIDING; TRIGGER REFINEMENT;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0034215493     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.868909     Document Type: Article

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