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Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming
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Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming

by Jack Minker
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
752 pages
35h 3m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter
10
A Logic-based Language for
Database Updates
Sanjay Manchanda
David Scott Warren
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook,
NY
Abstract
We propose a logic programming language for writing database update
programs. The language is called DLP, for Dynamic Logic Programming.
Update programs in the language are logic programs augmented with simple
update operations; they have a declarative semantics in a dynamic logic of up-
dates.
This semantics provides a logical theory of database updates. DLP sup-
ports data-definition, view definition, querying, updating, and general comput-
ing; therefore ...
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ISBN: 9781483221120