Stones falling in water: when and how to restructure a view-based relational database

  1. Domínguez, E. 1
  2. Lloret, J. 1
  3. Rubio, Á.L. 2
  4. Zapata, M.A. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Zaragoza
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    Universidad de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/012a91z28

  2. 2 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISSN: 0302-9743

Año de publicación: 2010

Volumen: 6295 LNCS

Páginas: 559-562

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15576-5_45 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-78249272336 WoS: WOS:000286444000045 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Resumen

Nowadays, one of the most important problems of software engineering continues to be the maintenance of both databases and applications. It is clear that any method that can reduce the impact that database modifications produce on application programs is valuable for software engineering processes. We have proposed such a method, by means of a database evolution architecture (MeDEA) that makes use of database views. By using views, changes in the structure of the database schema can be delayed until absolutely necessary. However, some conditions oblige modifications to be made. In this paper we present an approach to detect when the restructuring process must be realized and how to carry out this restructuring process. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.