Guidance System for Structuring or Restructuring of a Database in Multiple Database Management Systems

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In a scientific information system, scientists who are usually non-professional database administrators have been collecting and editing a number of items of scientific information in ordinary file systems or handy storage-oriented DBMSs. As masses of the information materials are stored, they organize and integrate the separated ones into another large-scale database managed by an online information retrieval-oriented DBMS. Then, the scientists often have to manipulate an unfamiliar DBMS by themselves, though they are untrained. This paper addresses an experimental attempt of a guidance system with which even a non-professional database administrator can accomplish his database structuring on a DBMS unfamiliar to him. This system is implemented as a command system named 'DBGUIDE', which provides two functions as follows: (1)the semi-automatic database conversion from COOD (a handy storage-oriented DBMS) into INQ (a general-purpose DBMS), and (2)database structuring guidance for administrators who are unfamiliar with INQ. This guidance system not only plays an important role in the management of a complicated database system in an environment where multiple databases and multiple DBMSs exist, but also shows one of the methods to familialize untrained database administrators like scientists with a DBMS.
一般社団法人情報処理学会の論文
1982-09-14