Improving database design through the analysis of relationships
Much of the work on conceptual modeling involves the use of an entity-relationship model in which binary relationships appear...
Statistical database design
The security problem of a statistical database is to limit the use of the database so that no sequence...
Database design with common sense business reasoning and learning
Automated database design systems embody knowledge about the database design process. However, their lack of knowledge about the domains...
Tools and transformations—rigorous and otherwise—for practical database design
We describe the tools and theory of a comprehensive system for database design, and show how they work together...
A software tool for modular database design
A modularization discipline for database schemas is first described. The dicipline incorporates both a strategy for enforcing integrity constraints...
Database design for incomplete relations
Although there has been a vast amount of research in the area of relational database design, to our knowledge,...
A methodology for creating user views in database design
The View Creation System (VCS) is an expert system that engages a user in a dialogue about the information...
Emancipating instances from the tyranny of classes in information modeling
Database design commonly assumes, explicitly or implicitly, that instances must belong to classes. This can be termed the assumption...
Vertical partitioning algorithms for database design
This paper addresses the vertical partitioning of a set of logical records or a relation into fragments. The rationale...
An analysis of SQL integrity constraints from an entity-relationship model perspective
This paper presents an analysis of the integrity constraints defined in the SQL ISO standard disclosure in the...
