On 11/20/05, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nicolas Barbier wrote:
>
> > You might want to take a look at the pages that I set up to track the
> > progress on my master's thesis:
> >
> > <url:http://www.nicolas.barbier.easynet.be/itsme/thesis/>
> >
> > especially the literature page:
> >
> > <url:http://www.nicolas.barbier.easynet.be/itsme/thesis/literature/>
> >
> > IMO, GL95, Qua97 and GM99 are the ones that are most applicable to
> > view maintenance with bag-semantics (thus, SQL). You should be able to
> > find all these papers with Google (Scholar) in case my computer is
> > shut down, otherwise you can download them directly from me.
>
> Thanks, interesting stuff.
>
> BTW: Does the GL95 algorithm handle outer joins?
No, but GM99 does (although only in the cases where it can be
applied). I guess that a slightly adapted version of the technique
from Qua97 can also be used. Investigating :-).
greetings,
Nicolas
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Nicolas Barbier
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