Bibliography of the System R Project
 

Don Chamberlin <chamberlin@almaden.ibm.com>

26 September 1995

 (Updated 4 December 2000 by Paul McJones <paul at mcjones dot org>)

ADIB 80
Michel E. Adiba, Bruce G. Lindsay. "Database Snapshots" Proceedings of VLDB 1980, p. 86-91.
ASTR 75a
M. M. Astrahan and D. D. Chamberlin. "Implementation of a Structured English Query Language" Communications of the ACM, Vol. 18, No. 10, October 1975.
ASTR 75b
M. M. Astrahan and R. A. Lorie. "SEQUEL-XRM: A Relational System" Proceedings of ACM Pacific Regional Conference, San Francisco, CA., April 1975, p. 34.
ASTR 76
M. M. Astrahan, M. W. Blasgen, D. D. Chamberlin, K. P. Eswaran, J. N. Gray, P. P. Griffiths, W. F. King, R. A. Lorie, P. R. McJones, J. W. Mehl, G. R. Putzolu, I. L. Traiger, B. Wade, and V. Watson. "System R: A Relational Approach to Database Management" ACM Transactions on Database Systems, June 1976, p. 97.  online
ASTR 79
M. M. Astrahan, M. W. Blasgen, D. D. Chamberlin, J. N. Gray, W. F. King, B. G. Lindsay, R. A. Lorie, J. W. Mehl, T. G. Price, G. R. Putzolu, M. Schkolnick, P. P. Selinger, D. R. Slutz, H. R. Strong, P. Tiberio, I. L. Traiger, B. W. Wade, and R. A. Yost. "System R: A Relational Data Base Management System" IEEE Computer, May 1979, p. 43.
ASTR 80a
M. M. Astrahan, W. Kim, and M. Schkolnick. "Performance of the System R Access Path Selection Mechanism" Proceedings of the IFIP Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 1980.
BLAS 77a
M. W. Blasgen and K. P. Eswaran. "Storage and Access in Relational Databases" IBM Systems Journal, No. 4, 1977, p. 363.
BLAS 77b
M. W. Blasgen, R. G. Casey, and K. P. Eswaran. "An Encoding Method for Multifield Sorting and Indexing" Communications of the ACM, Nov. 1977, p. 874.
BLAS 79
M. Blasgen, J. Gray, M. Mitoma, and T. Price. "The Convoy Phenomenon" ACM Operating Systems Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1979, p. 20.
BLAS 81
M. W. Blasgen, M. M. Astrahan, D. D. Chamberlin, J. N. Gray, W. F. King, B. G. Lindsay, R. A. Lorie, J. W. Mehl, T. G. Price, G. R. Putzolu, M. Schkolnick, P. G. Selinger, D. R. Slutz, H. R. Strong, I. L. Traiger, B. W. Wade, and R. A. Yost. "System R: An Architectural Overview" IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, Feb. 1981, p. 41.
BOYCE 73
R. F. Boyce and D. D. Chamberlin. "Using a Structured English Query Language as a Data Definition Facility" IBM Research Report RJ1318, San Jose, CA., December 1973.
BOYCE 75
R. F. Boyce, D. D. Chamberlin, W. F. King, and M. M Hammer. "Specifying Queries as Relational Expressions: the SQUARE Data Sublanguage" Communications of the ACM, November 1975, p. 621.
CHAM 74
D. D. Chamberlin and R. F. Boyce. "SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language" Proceedings of the ACM-SIGMOD Workshop on Data Description, Access, and Control, May 1974.
CHAM 75
D. D. Chamberlin, J. N. Gray, and I. L. Traiger. "Views, Authorization, and Locking in a Relational Database System" Proceedings of the 1975 National Computer Conference, p. 425.
CHAM 76a
D. D. Chamberlin, M. M. Astrahan, K. P. Eswaran, P. P. Griffiths, R. A. Lorie, J. W. Mehl, P. Reisner, and B. W. Wade. "SEQUEL 2: A Unified Approach to Data Definition, Manipulation, and Control" IBM Journal of Research and Development, Nov. 1976, p.560. (Also see errata in January 1977 issue.)
CHAM 76b
D. D. Chamberlin. "Relational Database Management Systems" Computing Surveys, March 1976, p. 43.
CHAM 78
D. D. Chamberlin, J. N. Gray, P. P. Griffiths, M. Mresse, I. L. Traiger, and B. W. Wade. "Data Base System Authorization" in Foundations of Secure Computation (edited by R. Demillo, D. Dobkin, A. Jones, and R. Lipton), Academic Press, 1978, p. 39.
CHAM 80
D. D. Chamberlin. "A Summary of User Experience with the SQL Data Sublanguage" Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Bases, Aberdeen, Scotland, July 1980. Also IBM Research Report RJ2767, San Jose, CA., April 1980.
CHAM 81a
D. D. Chamberlin, M. M. Astrahan, W. F. King, R. A. Lorie, J. W. Mehl, T. G. Price, M. Schkolnick, P. G. Selinger, D. R. Slutz, B. W. Wade, and R. A. Yost. "Support for Repetitive Transactions and Ad-Hoc Queries in System R" ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1981, p. 70.
CHAM 81b
D. D. Chamberlin, A. M. Gilbert, and R. A. Yost. "A History of System R and SQL/Data System". Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Cannes, France, September 1981, pp. 456-464.
CHAM 81c
D. D. Chamberlin, M. M. Astrahan, M. W. Blasgen, J. N. Gray, W. F. King, B. G. Lindsay, R. Lorie, J. W. Mehl, T. G. Price, F. Putzolu, P. G. Selinger, M. Schkolnick, D. R. Slutz, I. L. Traiger, B. W. Wade, and R. A. Yost. "A History and Evaluation of System R" Communications of the ACM, Vol. 24, No. 10, October 1981, pp. 632-646.
CODD 81
E. F. Codd. "The Significance of the SQL/Data System Announcement" Computerworld, Feb. 16, 1981.
ESWA 75
K. P. Eswaran and D. D. Chamberlin. "Functional Specifications of a Subsystem for Database Integrity" Proceedings of the Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Framingham, Mass., Sept. 1975.
ESWA 76
K. P. Eswaran, J. N. Gray, R. A. Lorie, and I. L. Traiger. "On the Notions of Consistency and Predicate Locks in a Database System" Communications of the ACM, November 1976, p. 624.
FAGIN 78
R. Fagin. "On an Authorization Mechanism" ACM Transactions on Database Systems, September 1978, p. 310.
GRAY 75a
J. N. Gray and V. Watson. "A Shared Segment and Inter-process Communication Facility for VM/370." IBM Research Report RJ1579, San Jose, CA., Feb. 1975.
GRAY 75b
J. N. Gray, R. A. Lorie, and G. F. Putzolu. "Granularity of Locks in a Large Shared Database" Proceedings of the Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Framingham, Mass., September 1975.
GRAY 76
J. N. Gray, R. A. Lorie, G. R. Putzolu, and I. L. Traiger. "Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared Data Base" Proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference on Modelling of Database Management Systems, Freudenstadt, Germany; January 1976; p. 695. (Also appeared as IBM Research Report RJ1654, San Jose, CA.)
GRAY 78
J. N. Gray. "Notes on Database Operating Systems" in Operating Systems: An Advanced Course (edited by Goos and Hartmanis), Springer-Verlag, 1978, p. 393. Also IBM Research Report RJ2188, San Jose, CA.
GRAY 79
J. N. Gray, P. McJones, M. W. Blasgen, R. A. Lorie, T. G. Price, G. R. Putzolu, and I. L. Traiger. "The Recovery Manager of a Data Management System" ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 1981, pp. 223-242.
GRIF 76
P. P. Griffiths and B. W. Wade. "An Authorization Mechanism for a Relational Database System" ACM Transactions on Database Systems, September 1976, p. 242.
IBM 81a
SQL/Data System, General Information Manual. Publication No. GH24-5012, IBM Corp., White Plains, NY, 1981.
IBM 81b
SQL/Data System, Concepts and Facilities. Publication No. GH24-5013, IBM Corp., White Plains, NY, 1981.
IBM 81c
SQL/Data System for VSE: A Relational Data System for Application Development. Publication No. G320-6590, IBM Corp., White Plains, NY, 1981.
KWAN 80
S. C. Kwan and H. R. Strong. "Index Path Length Evaluation for the Research Storage System of System R" IBM Research Report RJ2736, San Jose, CA., January 1980.
LORIE 74
R. A. Lorie. "XRM - An Extended (N-ary) Relational Memory" IBM Technical Report G320-2096, Cambridge Scientific Center, Cambridge, MA., January 1974.
LORIE 77
R. A. Lorie. "Physical Integrity in a Large Segmented Database" ACM Transactions on Database Systems, March 1977, p. 91.
LORIE 79a
R. A. Lorie and B. W. Wade. "The Compilation of a High Level Data Language" IBM Research Report RJ2598, San Jose, CA., August 1979.
LORIE 79b
R. A. Lorie and J. F. Nilsson. "An Access Specification Language for a Relational Data Base System" IBM Journal of Research and Development, May 1979, p. 286.
REIS 75
P. Reisner, R. F. Boyce, and D. D. Chamberlin. "Human Factors Evaluation of Two Data Base Query Languages--SQUARE and SEQUEL" Proceedings of the AFIPS National Computer Conference, Anaheim, CA, May 1975, p. 447.
REIS 77
P. Reisner. "Use of Psychological Experimentation as an Aid to Development of a Query Language" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-3, May 1977, p. 218.
SCHK 79
M. Schkolnick and P. Tiberio. "Considerations in Developing a Design Tool for a Relational DBMS" Proc. IEEE COMPSAC '79, November 1979.
SELI 79
P. G. Selinger, M. M. Astrahan, D. D. Chamberlin, R. A. Lorie, and T. G. Price. "Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System" Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, June 1979.
STRO 78
H. R. Strong, I. L. Traiger, and G. Markowsky. "Slide Search" IBM Research Report RJ2274, San Jose, CA., June 1978.
TRAI 79
I. L. Traiger, J. N. Gray, C. A. Galtieri, and B. G. Lindsay. "Transactions and Consistency in Distributed Database Systems" IBM Research Report RJ2555, San Jose, CA., June 1979.