Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdcsu!cfry From: cfry@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (C.Fry - Inst. Computer Research) Newsgroups: ont.events,uw.talks,uw.cs.grad Subject: ICR Dec 14 Prof Paul Larson The LauRel Database System Message-ID: <5351@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 21:31:02 GMT Distribution: ont Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 31 The LauRel Database System by Prof. Paul Larson Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo Abstract LauRel is a "postrelational" database system under development at Waterloo. Its data model is an extension of the relational model and its query language (SQL/W) is based on SQL. Support for set-valued attributes (nested relations) and reference attributes (pointers) have been incorporated into the first version of the query language. Several other extensions are under considera- tion. The system is designed to run on a shared-memory multipro- cessor machine and to fully exploit the parallelism provided by such a machine. The talk will begin with an overview of LauRel and then two issues will be discussed in more detail: the query language and the query processing architecture. DATE: Wednesday, December 14, 1988 TIME: 3:30 p.m. PLACE: DC 1302 Everyone is welcome, Refreshments served.