Abstract:One of the problems which confront dcsignemC implementers, and users of database management systems ia:the very large amounts of space often required to* store a database in a computer system. In general, that 'space is used for two purposes: to represent certain. atdmiai units of data and to represent certain relationships among those atomic units. This paper investigates the second aspect of the problem. the storage requirements of relationship representations. The class of navigational representations is de… Show more
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