CASE Tool Support for Temporal Database Design

Autor: Jean-Luc Hainaut, Virginie Detienne
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Conceptual Modeling — ER 2001 ISBN: 9783540428664
ER
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45581-7_17
Popis: Current RDBMS technology provides little support for building temporal databases. The paper describes a methodology and a CASE tool that is to help practitioners develop correct and efficient relational data structures. The designer builds a temporal ERA schema that is validated by the tool, then converted into a temporal relational schema. This schema can be transformed into a pure relational schema according to various optimization strategies. Finally, the tool generates an active SQL-92 database that automatically maintain entity and relationship states. In addition, it generates a temporal ODBC driver that encapsulates complex temporal operators such as projection, join and aggregation through a small subset of TSQL2. This API allows programmers to develop complex temporal applications as easily as non temporal ones.
Databáze: OpenAIRE