Incomplete information in object-oriented databases

1 September 1990

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGMOD Record

Vol. 19 (3) , 5-16
https://doi.org/10.1145/101077.101079

Abstract

We present a way to handle incomplete information both at schema and object instance level in an object-oriented database. Incremental schema design becomes possible with the introduction of generic classes. Incomplete data in an object instance is handled with the introduction of explicit null values in a similar way as in the relational and nested relations data models.

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