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Schema evolution is an important facility in object-oriented databases. However, updates should not result in inconsistencies either in the schema or in the database. We show a tool called ICC, which ensures the structural consistency when updating an object-oriented database system.
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Delcourt, C., Zicari, R. (1991). The design of an Integrity Consistency Checker (ICC) for an object oriented database system. In: America, P. (eds) ECOOP'91 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057017
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