GDOC: a tool for computerized design and documentation of database systems

  • Authors:
  • Fabrizio Massimo Ferrara;Carlo Batini

  • Affiliations:
  • GESI s.r.l., Rome, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMIS Database
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Release 2.1 of GDOC, a tool for computer-aided design of database applications, is described.GDOC provides for the interactive specification of the conceptual schema of the application, expressed in an enriched Entity-Relationship Model and produces the relevant documentation by means of traditional printouts, as well as allowing a graphical definition of the conceptual schema. Moreover, GDOC automatically generates the physical database and the operating programs for accessing the concepts in the schema in a dBASE II environment.Experiences of use of GDOC are discussed and further research directions are outlined.