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An extendible language for database schema refinement transformations

✍ Scribed by Donatella Castelli; Serena Pisani

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 162 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 0884-8173
DOI: 10.1002/1098-111x(200103)16:3<265::aid-int1007>3.0.co;2-0

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✦ Synopsis

The paper presents a formal language for specifying database schema transformations. This language consists of a set of primitive operators and a composition operator. Each of the primitive operators has associated the conditions under which it can be applied. A rule is given for generating the applicability conditions of a composed transformations from those of the component transformations. The paper shows how this language can be exploited for supporting a flexible and correct database schema design also when other transformational frameworks are used.