View Updating and Relational Theory: Solving the Update Problem

In stark contrast to this conventional wisdom, this book shows how views, just like base tables, can be updated (so long as the updates don’t violate any integrity constraints). More generally, it shows how updating ought to work, regardless of whether the target is a base table or a view. The proposed scheme is 100% consistent with the relational model, but rather different from the way updating works in SQL products today. This book can: Anyone with a professional interest in the relational model, relational technology, or database systems in general can benefit from this book.