| 1988 | A Formal Model of Trade-off between Optimization and Execution Costs in Semantic Query Optimization. Shashi Shekhar, Jaideep Srivastava, Soumitra Dutta |
| 1988 | A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures. Anant Jhingran |
| 1988 | A Superimposed Coding Scheme Based on Multiple Block Descriptor Files for Indexing Very Large Data Bases. Alan J. Kent, Ron Sacks-Davis, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao |
| 1988 | A Theory of Timestamp-Based Concurrency Control for Nested Transactions. James Aspnes, Alan D. Fekete, Nancy A. Lynch, Michael Merritt, William E. Weihl |
| 1988 | A logical framework for temporal deductive databases. Suryanarayana M. Sripada |
| 1988 | Administration and Autonomy in a Replication-Transparent Distributed DBMS. Kenneth R. Abbott, Dennis R. McCarthy |
| 1988 | An Analysis of Three Transaction Processing Architectures. Anupam Bhide |
| 1988 | An Implementation for Nested Relational Databases. Anand Deshpande, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1988 | An Information-Theoretic Study on Aggregate Responses. Chung-Dak Shum, Richard R. Muntz |
| 1988 | Anatomy of a Mudular Multiple Query Optimizer. Arnon Rosenthal, Upen S. Chakravarthy |
| 1988 | Browsing Electronic Mail: Experiences Interfacing a Mail System to a DBMS. Jack Kent, Douglas B. Terry, Willie-Sue Orr |
| 1988 | Closed World Databases Opened Through Null Values. Georg Gottlob, Roberto V. Zicari |
| 1988 | Compact 0-Complete Trees. Ratko Orlandic, John L. Pfaltz |
| 1988 | Computing Facts in Non-Horn Deductive Systems. Eliezer L. Lozinskii |
| 1988 | Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions. Volker Linnemann, Klaus Küspert, Peter Dadam, Peter Pistor, R. Erbe, Alfons Kemper, Norbert Südkamp, Georg Walch, Mechtild Wallrath |
| 1988 | Disk Shadowing. Dina Bitton, Jim Gray |
| 1988 | Distributed Concurrency Control Performance: A Study of Algorithms, Distribution, and Replication. Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny |
| 1988 | Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views. Erich J. Neuhold, Michael Schrefl |
| 1988 | Efficient Search in Very Large Databases. Rakesh Agrawal, H. V. Jagadish |
| 1988 | Efficient Transitive Closure Algorithms. Yannis E. Ioannidis, Raghu Ramakrishnan |
| 1988 | Enforcing Inclusion Dependencies and Referencial Integrity. Marco A. Casanova, Luiz Tucherman, António L. Furtado |
| 1988 | Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases. Clifford A. Lynch, Michael Stonebraker |
| 1988 | Fast Text Access Methods for Optical and Large Magnetic Disks: Designs and Performance Comparison. Christos Faloutsos, Raphael Chan |
| 1988 | Fixed-point semantics and the representation of algorithms on large data. Michel de Rougemont |
| 1988 | Fourteenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 29 - September 1, 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA, Proceedings. François Bancilhon, David J. DeWitt |
| 1988 | Hash-Partitioned Join Method Using Dynamic Destaging Strategy. Masaya Nakayama, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Mikio Takagi |
| 1988 | Implementing Queries and Updates on Universal Scheme Interfaces. Christophe Lécluse, Nicolas Spyratos |
| 1988 | Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer. Mavis K. Lee, Johann Christoph Freytag, Guy M. Lohman |
| 1988 | Management of Complex Objects as Dynamic Forms. Michel E. Adiba, Christine Collet |
| 1988 | Mixed concurrency control: Dealing with heterogeneity in distributed database systems. Jean-François Pons, Jean-François Vilarem |
| 1988 | Modelling Non Deterministic Queries and Updates in Deductive Databases. Christophe de Maindreville, Eric Simon |
| 1988 | Rapid Application Prototyping the PROQUEL Language. Jean-Yves Lingat, Pierre Colignon, Colette Rolland |
| 1988 | Reducing Storage for Quorum Consensus Algorithms. Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi |
| 1988 | Scheduling Real-time Transactions: a Performance Evaluation. Robert K. Abbott, Hector Garcia-Molina |
| 1988 | Selectivity Estimation and Query Optimization in Large Databases with Highly Skewed Distribution of Column Values. Clifford A. Lynch |
| 1988 | Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities. Calton Pu, Gail E. Kaiser, Norman C. Hutchinson |
| 1988 | Techniques for Design and Implementation of Efficient Spatial Access Methods. Bernhard Seeger, Hans-Peter Kriegel |
| 1988 | Temporal Relationships in Databases. Surajit Chaudhuri |
| 1988 | The Design of XPRS. Michael Stonebraker, Randy H. Katz, David A. Patterson, John K. Ousterhout |
| 1988 | The Partial Normalized Storage Model of Nested Relations. Aladdin Hafez, Gultekin Özsoyoglu |
| 1988 | Towards a Real Horn Clause Language. Ravi Krishnamurthy, Shamim A. Naqvi |
| 1988 | Towards a Spatial Query Language: User Interface Considerations. Max J. Egenhofer, Andrew U. Frank |
| 1988 | Versions of Schema for Object-Oriented Databases. Won Kim, Hong-Tai Chou |