SIGMOD Record, Volume 14

Volume 14, Number 1, March 1984

• Bea Yormark:
  Chairman's Column. i
  
• Jon D. Clark:
  Editor's Notes. ii
  
• Call for Papers: OIS 1984, Parallel Processing 1984, 1984 NCC, PODS 1984. iii-vi
  
• James Ong, Dennis Fogg, Michael Stonebraker:
  Implementation of Data Abstraction in the Relational Database System Ingres. 1-14
  
• Timo Niemi, Kalervo Järvelin:
  A Straightforward Formalization of the Relational Model. 15-38
  
• T. H. Merrett:
  Practical Hardware for Linear Execution of relational database Operations. 39-44
  
• Antonio L. Furtado:
  An Informal Approach to Formal Specifications. 45-54
  
• H. C. Du:
  Distributing a database for Parallel Processing is NP-hard. 55-60
  
• W. N. Chin:
  Some Comments on "Deadlock Detection is Cheap" in SIGMOD Record Jan 83. 61-63
  
• Neil C. Rowe:
  Book Review - Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck, The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World. 64-65
  

Volume 14, Number 2, June 1984

Volume 14, Number 3, November 1984

• Jon D. Clark:
  Editor's Notes. i
  
• Call for Papers: SIGMETRICS 1985. ii
  
• C. J. Date:
  Some Principles of Good Language Design (with especial reference to the design of database languages). 1-7
  
• C. J. Date:
  A Critique of the SQL Database Language. 8-54
  
• T. H. Merrett:
  Extending the Relational Algebra to Capture Less Meaning. 55-68
  
• Ken Meyer, John Doughty:
  Automatic Normalization and Enity-Relationship Generation through Attributes and Roles. 69-103
  

Volume 14, Number 4, December 1985