A language facility for designing database-intensive applications

  • Authors:
  • John Mylopoulos;Philip A. Bernstein;Harry K. T. Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA;IBM Research Lab, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

TAXIS, a language for the design of interactive information systems (e.g., credit card verification, student-course registration, and airline reservations) is described. TAXIS offers (relational) database management facilities, a means of specifying semantic integrity constraints, and an exception-handling mechanism, integrated into a single language through the concepts of class, property, and the IS-A (generalization) relationship. A description of the main constructs of TAXIS is included and their usefulness illustrated with examples.