Flexible database transformations: the SERF approach

Authors: 
Claypool, KT; Rundensteiner, EA
Author: 
Claypool, K
Rundensteiner, E
Year: 
1999
Venue: 
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin
URL: 
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~kajal/research/pubs/bulletin-1999/bulletin99.pdf
Citations: 
13
Citations range: 
10 - 49
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Database transformations is a critical task that occurs in many different domains. Schema evolution is
one important class of problems for database transformations. In our work, we use existing technology
and standards (ODMG, OQL, basic schema evolution primitives) to bring flexibility, extensibility and
re-usability to current schema evolution systems, thus allowing the users to conveniently specify any
customized transformation of their choice. We also investigate the re-usabilty of our framework to other
applications beyond schema evolution such as web re-structuring.