TY  - SER
AU  - Abiteboul, Serge
AU  - Cluet, Sophie
AU  - Milo, Tova
TI  - A logical view of structured files
KW  - DATABASE
KW  - TEXTUAL DATA
KW  - FILE SYSTEM
KW  - QUERY
KW  - UPDATE
KW  - QUERY AND UPDATE OPTIMIZATION
N1  - Structured data stored in files can benefit from standard database technology. In particular, we show here how such data can be queried and updated using declarative database languages. We introduce the notion of structuring schema, which consists of a grammar annotated with database programs. Based on a structuring schema, a file can be viewed as a database structure, queried and updated as such
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