Advances in Databases: 14th British National Conference on Database, BNCOD 14 Edinburgh, UK, July 3 - 5, 1996. Proceedings

Schema integration meta-knowledge classification and reuse.- View mechanism for schema evolution in object-oriented DBMS.- An active rule language for ROCK & ROLL.- Integrity constraints in multiversion databases.- The development of a semantic integrity constraint subsystem for a distributed database (SICSDD).- Understanding the tension between transition rules and confidentiality.- Extending ER for dynamic behaviour and refinement.- Speeding up knowledge discovery in large relational databases by means of a new discretization algorithm.- Integration of load measurement parameters into the cost evaluation of database queries.- High performance OO traversals in monet.- A modular compiler architecture for a data manipulation language.- Querying graph databases using a functional language extended with second order facilities.- Adding temporal indeterminacy to the database language SQL.- Pearls, swine and sow's Interface research inside a multinational bank.- Dissemination-based information Your data may be where you least expect it.- Microsoft database technologies - An inside view.- Predicate-maintained An active OODBMS for financial applications.- Universal data mangagement.