Title: An approach to deriving object hierarchies from database schema and contents
Abstract: Database design involves a set of activities, which include requirements analysis, conceptual database design, selection of a database management system, mapping from conceptual model to physical model, and the physical database design. Two problems that often confuse database designers in the conceptual database design phase are: (1) how to construct object hierarchies, and (2) how to specify object hierarchies. In this paper, we propose an adaptive approach utilizing a schema evolution process to address these two problems. The approach provides a set of heuristics to analyze the database schema as well as the database contents to provide substantial information to database designers for constructing and specifying object hierarchies.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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