Presentation Overview: TCSQL is a collection of SQL capabilities that enable support of object oriented programming directly in a relational database and some advanced capabilities that provide a foundation to support the Holy Grail of information technology… the ability to support Google-like queries on structured data.

Slide Presentation: TCSQL

Demonstration: Transforming an Information System into a Knowledge System



Video Presentation Overview: This presentation gives a high-level overview of what is considered the “Holy Grail” of IT… the ability to provide Google-like query capability on structured data. This talk describes a collection of large information-technology challenges that must be solved in order to deliver the “Holy Grail”. Also, a high-level description of the technologies needed to deliver the Holy Grail are discussed.

Slide Presentation: The Holy Grail of IT

Prerequisite Video Presentation: Support of OOP Directly in a RDBMS
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Processing XML in a RDBMS

Demonstration: Data Privacy, Security, and Consent
Demonstration: Correlating Healthcare Data
Demonstration: Clinical Trials
Demonstration: Transforming an Information System into a Knowledge System



Presentation Overview: This presentation describes methods for navigating graphs in a relational database. Included are a discussion of brute-force navigation, recursion-based navigation, and transitive-closure-based navigation.

Slide Presentation: Graph Navigation in a RDBMS

Demonstration: Path Query
Demonstration: Querying Cyclic Graphs
Demonstration: Related Concepts Query
Demonstration: Multidimensional Relationship Query



Presentation Overview: This presentation describes a variety of graph queries in a relational database. Query types include subsumption, path, inference, and polymorphism. These query types are based upon the use of transitive closure.

Slide Presentation: Graph Queries in a RDBMS

Demonstration: Path Query
Demonstration: Querying Cyclic Graphs
Demonstration: Related Concepts Query
Demonstration: Multidimensional Relationship Query



Presentation Overview: This presentation describes 3 options for deserializing XML into a relational database. These options include deserializing into database table columns of data type XML, deserializing into conventional relational tables, and deserializing into a soft schema. In the latter approach, XML and corresponding XSD documents are treated as object graphs and class graphs respectively. Treating XSD documents as class graphs enables a clever use of XSD documents in support of a very powerful class of queries called polymorphic queries. Polymorphic queries provide the ability to write queries over collections of heterogeneous XML documents without having to hard-code knowledge accounting for the structural differences between the various XML documents. This presentation also includes a description of how to apply natural language processing (NLP) to the names or values of object graph nodes in order to associate object graph nodes with industry-standard ontology nodes.

Slide Presentation: Processing XML in a RDBMS

Prerequisite Video Presentation: Support of OOP Directly in a RDBMS

Demonstration: Importing XML into TCSQL
Demonstration: Importing XSD into TCSQL
Demonstration: Instantiation of an XSD Class



Presentation Overview: This presentation describes the notion of a soft star schema data warehouse and a general ETL method applicable to any structured data. Having a soft star schema data warehouse enables the ability to write domain-independent queries.

Slide Presentation: Soft Star Schema Data Warehouse

Prerequisite Video Presentation: Support of OOP Directly in a RDBMS
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Processing XML in a RDBMS

Demonstration: Transforming an Information System into a Knowledge System



Presentation Overview: This presentation describes ways of categorizing structured data. The ability to categorize structured data is the key to enable writing powerful queries that cross domain boundaries. Many of the categorization examples are in the healthcare field.

Slide Presentation: Categorizing Structured Data

Prerequisite Video Presentation: Support of OOP Directly in a RDBMS
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Processing XML in a RDBMS

Demonstration: Importing XML into TCSQL
Demonstration: Importing XSD into TCSQL
Demonstration: Instantiation of an XSD Class
Demonstration: Natural Language Processing
Demonstration: Social Network



Presentation Overview: This presentation describes an architecture to deliver the Holy Grail of IT. This architecture is predicated on transforming an information system into a knowledge system via the use of ontologies, natural language processing (NLP), and the use of a technology called TCSQL.

Slide Presentation: An Architecture to Deliver the Holy Grail of IT

Prerequisite Video Presentation: Search Engine Technology
Prerequisite Video Presentation: The Holy Grail of IT
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Graph Navigation in a RDBMS
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Support of OOP Directly in a RDBMS
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Graph Queries in a RDBMS
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Processing XML in a RDBMS
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Soft Star Schema Data Warehouse
Prerequisite Video Presentation: Categorizing Structured Data

Demonstration: Importing XML into TCSQL
Demonstration: Importing XSD into TCSQL
Demonstration: Instantiation of an XSD Class
Demonstration: Natural Language Processing



Presentation Overview> This presentation describes the concept of object morphing. This powerful capability provides the ability to take object instances and automatically make appropriate property additions and deletions whenever the class of an object is changed to a different class.

Slide Presentation: Object Morphing

Prerequisite Video Presentation: Support of OOP Directly in a RDBMS

Demonstration: Instantiation of a TCSQL Class



Presentation Overview: This presentation describes the notion of soft methods and triggers. These advanced TCSQL features provide the ability to define semantic behavior associated with connection types. Whenever a property of an object is modified, the TCSQL framework checks to see if some other node(s) in the graph cares about that modification. If so, an appropriate soft trigger is executed.

Slide Presentation: Soft Methods and Triggers

Prerequisite Video Presentation: Support of OOP Directly in a RDBMS