Integration of relations with conflicting schema structures in heterogeneous database systems

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-248

  Tseng, Frank S C ^a   Chiang, Jeng Jye ^b   Yang, Wei Pang ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Global query optimization; Heterogeneous database systems; Metadata; Query decomposition; Schema integration

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

GLOBAL QUERY OPTIMIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE SYSTEMS; SCHEMA INTEGRATION;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032164198     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(98)00005-6     Document Type: Article

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