Title :
Problems in the maintenance of a federated database schema
Author_Institution :
Instituto de Computacion, Univ. de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Abstract :
We characterize the problem of maintenance of a federated schema to cope with local schema evolution in a tightly coupled federation. By means of an example, we present the problems that local schema changes could cause on the federated schema and show proposed solutions.
Keywords :
data models; distributed databases; software maintenance; federated database schema maintenance; local schema changes; local schema evolution; tightly coupled federation; Computer science; Database systems; Information technology; Investments; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Productivity; Societies;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science Society, 2002. SCCC 2002. Proceedings. 22nd International Conference of the Chilean
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1867-2
DOI :
10.1109/SCCC.2002.1173183
