Schema Evolution in Heterogeneous Database Architectures, A Schema Transformation Approach

From: ‘Advanced Information Systems Engineering’, 14th International Conference, CAiSE 2002, A. Banks Pidduck et al (Eds), Springer Verlag LNCS 2348, Pages 484-499, 2002 This paper presents a new approach to schema evolution, which combines the activities of schema integration and schema evolution into one framework. In previous work we have developed a general framework to support schema transformation and integration in heterogeneous database architectures. Here we show how this framework also readily supports evolution of source schemas, allowing the global schema and the query translation pathways to be easily repaired, as opposed to having to be regenerated, after changes to source schemas.