A temporal approach to managing schema evolution in object database systems

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-105

  Goralwalla, Iqbal A ^a,c   Szafron, Duane ^a   Özsu, M Tamer ^a   Peters, Randal J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change propagation; Database; Object oriented; Schema evolution; Temporal model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA STRUCTURES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

SCHEMA EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL OBJECT MODELS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0345770139     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(98)00014-7     Document Type: Article

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