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Abstract:Integrity constraints are semantic conditions that a database should satisfy in order to be an appropriate model of external reality. In practice, and for many reasons, a database may not satisfy those integrity constraints, and for that reason it is said to be inconsistent. However, and most likely a large portion of the database is still semantically correct, in a sense that has to be made precise. After having provided a formal characterization of consistent data in an inconsistent database, the natural problem emerges of extracting that semantically correct data, as query answers.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 105 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-103).
ISBN:9781608457632 (electronic bk.)
160845763X (electronic bk.)
ISSN:2153-5426 ;