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One of the most severe problems related to database evolution is how to reflect in the data level the changes that have occurred in the conceptual schema of a database. This is specially relevant when evolution operations affect ISA relationships. In this paper we present our view of the evolution of ISA relationships, focusing on the artifacts that generate the sentences for changing the data in a consistent way.
This work has been partially supported by DGI, project TIN2005-05534, by the Government of La Rioja, project ANGI2005/19, by the Government of Aragon and by the European Social Fund.
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Domínguez, E., Lloret, J., Rubio, Á.L., Zapata, M.A. (2006). Evolving the Implementation of ISA Relationships in EER Schemas. In: Roddick, J.F., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_29
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