Computer Science and Technology: Report on Approaches to Database Translation

摘要

Transporting a database from a source to a target environment has often been an expensive and complex project. In large part this is due to the lack of standards for data models and database interchange forms. This report describes approaches to database translation, discusses candidate interchange forms, and recommends a method for representing the data structures of newly proposed network and relational data models in a form suitable for database interchange. Methods for representing other commonly used database structures in terms of the proposed standard structures show that automated database translation is feasible for most currently installed data models.