14 Schema Transformations
Abstract
This chapter discusses the following topics: conceptual schema equivalence and optimization; predicate specialization and generalization; nesting, coreference and flattening; schema transformations; normalization; denormalization and low-level optimization; reengineering; data migration; query transformation.
Keywords
Conceptual schema equivalence; Schema optimization; Specialization; Generalization; Schema transformation; Normalization; Denormalization; Reengineering; Data migration; Query transformation
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