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Nowadays, one of the most important problems of software engineering continues to be the maintenance of both databases and applications. It is clear that any method that can reduce the impact that database modifications produce on application programs is valuable for software engineering processes. We have proposed such a method, by means of a database evolution architecture (MeDEA) that makes use of database views. By using views, changes in the structure of the database schema can be delayed until absolutely necessary. However, some conditions oblige modifications to be made. In this paper we present an approach to detect when the restructuring process must be realized and how to carry out this restructuring process.
This work has been partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, project TIN2009-13584, by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, project LISBioBank (TSI-020302-2008-8) and by the Government of Aragon, project LIS (PI108/08).
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Domínguez, E., Lloret, J., Rubio, Á.L., Zapata, M.A. (2010). Stones Falling in Water: When and How to Restructure a View–Based Relational Database. In: Catania, B., Ivanović, M., Thalheim, B. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15576-5_45
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