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Database Reverse Engineering

Database Reverse Engineering

Jean-Luc Hainaut, Jean Henrard, Didier Roland, Jean-Marc Hick, Vincent Englebert
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 9
ISBN13: 9781605662428|ISBN10: 1605662429|EISBN13: 9781605662435
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch021
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Hainaut, Jean-Luc, et al. "Database Reverse Engineering." Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends, edited by Viviana E. Ferraggine, et al., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 181-189. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch021

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Hainaut, J., Henrard, J., Roland, D., Hick, J., & Englebert, V. (2009). Database Reverse Engineering. In V. Ferraggine, J. Doorn, & L. Rivero (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends (pp. 181-189). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch021

Chicago

Hainaut, Jean-Luc, et al. "Database Reverse Engineering." In Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends, edited by Viviana E. Ferraggine, Jorge Horacio Doorn, and Laura C. Rivero, 181-189. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch021

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Abstract

Database reverse engineering consists of recovering the abstract descriptions of files and databases of legacy information systems. A legacy information system can be defined as a “data-intensive application, such as [a] business system based on hundreds or thousands of data files (or tables), that significantly resists modifications and changes” (Brodie & Stonebraker, 1995). The objective of database reverse engineering is to recover the logical and conceptual descriptions, or schemas, of the permanent data of a legacy information system, that is, its database, be it implemented as a set of files or through an actual database management system.

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