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Identification of database objects by key

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In relational databases one or more user-supplied scalar values are used to construct an identifier key representing the identity of an object. By contrast, object-oriented programming-languages and databases support the notion of object identity which is independent of the attribute values of the object. In this paper we compare the two approaches and describe a compromise based upon objects with keys.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland

    Norman W Paton & Peter M D Gray

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Paton, N.W., Gray, P.M.D. (1988). Identification of database objects by key. In: Dittrich, K.R. (eds) Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems. OODBS 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50345-5_25

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