Résumé
This is an abstract of a revision of the original paper (ER'93 pre-proceedings) that presents a DBMS-independent database reverse engineering (DBRE) methodology based on a generic process model and on transformation techniques. DBRE is proposed as a two-phase process consisting in recovering the DBMS-dependent data structures (data structure extraction) then in recovering their semantics (data structure conceptualization). The second phase, that is strongly linked with the logical design phase of current database design methodologies, can be performed by application of a selected set of standard schema transformations. The paper illustrates the methodology by applying it to various DBRE processes : removing optimization structures, untranslating database/file structures, and finally conceptual normalization.
| langue originale | Anglais |
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| titre | Entity-Relationship Approach — ER '93 |
| Sous-titre | 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach Arlington, Texas, USA, December 15–17, 1993 Proceedings |
| rédacteurs en chef | Ramez A. Elmasri, Vram Kouramajian, Bernhard Thalheim |
| Lieu de publication | Arlington-Dallas |
| Editeur | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 364-375 |
| Nombre de pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronique) | 978-3-540-48575-9 |
| ISBN (imprimé) | 978-3-540-58217-5 |
| Etat de la publication | Publié - 1994 |
Série de publications
| Nom | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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| Editeur | Springer |
| Volume | 823 |
| ISSN (imprimé) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronique) | 1611-3349 |