Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema

A multidatabase is a confederation of pre-existing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous database system. Obviously, the integration process is essential in the effort of forming a distributed, heterogeneous database system. This process generally consists of two main phases, which are conce...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Hamidah, Ki, Soon Lay, Mamat, Ali, Muda, Zaiton
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Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2005
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author Ibrahim, Hamidah
Ki, Soon Lay
Mamat, Ali
Muda, Zaiton
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Ki, Soon Lay
Mamat, Ali
Muda, Zaiton
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description A multidatabase is a confederation of pre-existing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous database system. Obviously, the integration process is essential in the effort of forming a distributed, heterogeneous database system. This process generally consists of two main phases, which are conceptual schema translation phase followed by the integration phase. This paper presents a translation approach to convert relational database schema to object-oriented database schema. The translation approach consists of a set of translation rules, which is based on inclusion dependencies, key attributes and types of attributes. A database schema translation tool prototype, called RETOO (RElational-ToObject- Qriented) is then developed based on the proposed translation approach. RETOO receives a relational database schema as input data and generates an object-oriented database schema as the output. The translation approach is not only able to maintain the semantics of the relational database schema, but also enhance the semantics of the translated object-oriented schema via objectoriented data modeling concepts.
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spelling upm-38442013-05-27T07:11:42Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3844/ Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema Ibrahim, Hamidah Ki, Soon Lay Mamat, Ali Muda, Zaiton A multidatabase is a confederation of pre-existing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous database system. Obviously, the integration process is essential in the effort of forming a distributed, heterogeneous database system. This process generally consists of two main phases, which are conceptual schema translation phase followed by the integration phase. This paper presents a translation approach to convert relational database schema to object-oriented database schema. The translation approach consists of a set of translation rules, which is based on inclusion dependencies, key attributes and types of attributes. A database schema translation tool prototype, called RETOO (RElational-ToObject- Qriented) is then developed based on the proposed translation approach. RETOO receives a relational database schema as input data and generates an object-oriented database schema as the output. The translation approach is not only able to maintain the semantics of the relational database schema, but also enhance the semantics of the translated object-oriented schema via objectoriented data modeling concepts. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2005 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3844/1/Pages_from_JST_VOL_13_NO._1.pdf Ibrahim, Hamidah and Ki, Soon Lay and Mamat, Ali and Muda, Zaiton (2005) Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema. Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 13 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0128-7680 English
spellingShingle Ibrahim, Hamidah
Ki, Soon Lay
Mamat, Ali
Muda, Zaiton
Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema
title Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema
title_full Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema
title_fullStr Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema
title_full_unstemmed Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema
title_short Developing Translation Rules for Converting Relational to Object Oriented Database Conceptual Schema
title_sort developing translation rules for converting relational to object oriented database conceptual schema
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3844/
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