On interaction with data bases

  • Authors:
  • N. Minsky

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIGFIDET '74 Proceedings of the 1974 ACM SIGFIDET (now SIGMOD) workshop on Data description, access and control
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

The main thesis of this paper is that interaction with data bases is fundamentally different from file manipulation: In the former case the data base should be “the master,” while the file is a passive collection of data. The main corollaries of this observaction are: a) The conventional update and retrieval operations, traditionally used for files, are not satisfactory as the primitives of users data-base interaction. b) The privacy and integrity of the data base cannot be secured by “access control” alone; there must be a way for the data base to control the user's program itself.