An analysis of database rules

  • Authors:
  • John Debenham

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • IDEAS'97 Proceedings of the 1997 international conference on International database engineering and applications symposium
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Maintaining the integrity of the knowledge represented within database rules is a complex business. In order to analyse the maintenance of integrity, a uniform framework for the representation of both data and database rules is introduced. A conceptual model is constructed using this uniform framework. The maintenance of the integrity of this conceptual model is analysed. In particular a generalised form of normalisation enables both the data and the database rules to be engineered so that they are maintainable in a technical sense. Database integrity is also protected by a comprehensive range of constraints including knowledge constraints.