MALPHA: A relatiohal multidatabase manipulation language

Abstract

MALPHA is a language for manipulations of data that constitute collections of relational databases. It generalizes to this environment the well known database manipulation language ALPHA of E. Γ. Codd. The principles that MALPHA proposes may also lead to MQUEL, MSQL etc. Since users typically face more than one database, the multidatabase manipulation languages should reveal more useful than the database ones.