N. H. Gehani
Abstract
The concept of a trigger is central to any active database. Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, the trigger is “fired”, i.e, the trigger action is executed. We describe a model and a language for specifying basic and composite trigger events in the context of an object-oriented database. The specified events can be detected efficiently using finite automata.
We integrate our model with O++, the database programming language for the ode object database being developed at AT&T Bell Labs. We propose a new Event-Action model, which folds into the event specification the condition part of the well-known Event-Condition-Action model and avoids the multiple coupling modes between the event, condition, and action trigger components.
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