A taxonomy for schema versioning based on the relational and Entity Relationship Models

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Authors: John F. Roddick, Noel G. Craske, Thomas J. Richards

Tags: 1993, conceptual modeling

Recently there has been increasing interest in both the problems and the potential of accommodating evolving schema in databases, especially in systems which necessitate a high volume of structural changes or where structural change is difficult. This paper presents a taxonomy of changes applicable to the Entity-Relationship Model together with their effects on the underlying relational model expressed in terms of a second taxonomy relevant to the relational model.

Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0024363