Title :
Incremental restructuring of relational schemas
Author :
Markowitz, Victor M. ; Makowsky, Johann A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
Entity-relationship (ER) consistency is defined, and a complete set of incremental and reversible restructuring manipulations is proposed for ER-consistent relational schemas. It is shown how the schema restructuring manipulations that are proposed back both interactive and view-integration methodologies for schema design
Keywords :
database theory; relational databases; ER-consistent relational schemas; entity-relationship consistency; incremental restructuring; interactive-integration; reversible restructuring; schema design; schema restructuring; view-integration; Computer science; Design methodology; Erbium; Information systems; Laboratories; Mathematics; Relational databases;
Conference_Titel :
Data Engineering, 1988. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0827-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICDE.1988.105470
