Extracting N-ary relationships through database reverse engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1157 LNCS, Issue , 1996, Pages 392-405

  Soutou, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); REVERSE ENGINEERING;

C PROGRAMS; CARDINALITIES; KEY ATTRIBUTES; RELATIONAL DATABASE; RELATIONSHIP TABLES; SQL QUERY;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 0003094415     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0019936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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