An implementation of a query language supporting path expressions

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

Volumn , Issue , 1982, Pages 87-93

  Dintelman, Sue M ^a   Maness, A Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data base systems; Path expressions; Query languages

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; QUERY LANGUAGES;

GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATH EXPRESSIONS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 45149105835     PISSN: 07308078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/582353.582368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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