| 1988 | A Framework for Comparison of Update Semantics. | Marianne Winslett |
| 1988 | Decidability and Undecidability Results for Boundedness of Linear Recursive Queries. | Moshe Y. Vardi |
| 1988 | The Complexity of Ordering Subgoals. | Jeffrey D. Ullman, Moshe Y. Vardi |
| 1988 | Analytical Modeling of Materialized View Maintenance. | Jaideep Srivastava, Doron Rotem |
| 1988 | A Generalized Transitive Closure for Relational Queries. | Seppo Sippu, Eljas Soisalon-Soininen |
| 1988 | Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Model (LDL). | Oded Shmueli, Shalom Tsur, Carlo Zaniolo |
| 1988 | What Should A Database Know? | Raymond Reiter |
| 1988 | Optimizing Existential Datalog Queries. | Raghu Ramakrishnan, Catriel Beeri, Ravi Krishnamurthy |
| 1988 | Analysis of Bounded Disorder File Organization. | M. V. Ramakrishna, P. Mukhopadhyay |
| 1988 | Possibilities and Limitations of Using Flat Operators in Nested Algebra Expressions. | Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1988 | Database Updates in Logic Programming. | Shamim A. Naqvi, Ravi Krishnamurthy |
| 1988 | Optimization of Multiple-Relation Multiple-Disjunct Queries. | M. Muralikrishna, David J. DeWitt |
| 1988 | An Algorithm for Ordering Subgoals in NAIL! | Katherine A. Morris |
| 1988 | Concurrent Set Manipulation without Locking. | Vladimir Lanin, Dennis E. Shasha |
| 1988 | On the Expressive Power of Logic Programming Languages with Sets. | Gabriel M. Kuper |
| 1988 | Why Not Negation by Fixpoint? | Phokion G. Kolaitis, Christos H. Papadimitriou |
| 1988 | An Axiomatic Approach to Deciding Query Safety in Deductive Databases. | Michael Kifer, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Abraham Silberschatz |
| 1988 | The Queue Protocol: A Deadlock-free Homogeneous Non-Two-Phase Locking Protocol. | Udo Kelter |
| 1988 | Explicit Control of Logic Programs Through Rule Algebra. | Tomasz Imielinski, Shamim A. Naqvi |
| 1988 | On the Expressive Power of Database Queries with Intermediate Types. | Richard Hull, Jianwen Su |
| 1988 | Stable Set and Multiset Operations in Optimal Time and Space. | Bing-Chao Huang, Michael A. Langston |
| 1988 | Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions. | Wen-Chi Hou, Gultekin zsoyoglu, Baldeo K. Taneja |
| 1988 | Hybrid Concurrency Control for Abstract Data Types. | Maurice Herlihy, William E. Weihl |
| 1988 | Decomposition of Relational Schemata into Components Defined by Both Projection and Restriction. | Stephen J. Hegner |
| 1988 | Transaction Synchronisation in Object Bases. | Thanasis Hadzilacos, Vassos Hadzilacos |