Exception handling in object-oriented databases

  • Authors:
  • Elisa Bertino;Giovanna Guerrini;Isabella Merlo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41 - 120135 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35 - 116146 Genova, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41 - 120135 Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Advances in exception handling techniques
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Exceptions in database systems can be used for two different purposes: to store data not conforming to the description provided by the database schema, that is, exceptional data; and to handle exceptional situations during processing, that is, the usual execution exceptions of programming languages. In this paper we survey approaches to both kinds of exceptions in OODBMSs, we discuss some uses of exceptions peculiar to databases, and relate exceptions with triggers, a typical database functionality.