A formal model for temporal schema versioning in object-oriented databases

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-167

  Grandi, Fabio ^a   Mandreoli, Federica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Schema evolution; Schema versioning; Temporal database; Temporal versioning

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038695144     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(02)00207-0     Document Type: Article

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