A unified interface method for interfacing with a database
By: [by] C. Thomas Wu
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Subjects: Computer architecture; Software engineering; Databases
Description: A graphics user interface called GLAD (Graphics Language for Database) is proposed as a unified interface method for a user interaction with a database. GLAD provides a coherent interaction method for all three user interactions with a database: data definition interaction, data manipulation interaction, and program development interaction.  In this paper, the features of data manipulation interaction of GLAD are described.  Specifically, the method of representing and manipulating generalized/specialized objects and recursively related objects is presented, and the notion of program box which is used for specifying a complex query is introduced.
Notes: Title from cover.

"Prepared for: Chief of Naval Research"--Cover.

"January 1986"--Cover.

"NPS52-86-014"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1986.

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