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Object-oriented databases: how do we get there from here?

Journal of Systems Management

| November 01, 1995 | Hayne, Stephen C. | COPYRIGHT 1995 John Carroll University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ever since the introduction of the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model, relational databases have been easier to design and implement, Extensions to the ER model bring even more powerful, graphical conceptual design techniques to the architect's toolbox.

This Extended ER (ERR) model can now be used for designing both object-oriented and relational database. Very simple pragmatic rules are outlined to convert from the EER model to both relational and object-oriented data-bases. This provides a migration path for database application software.

Stephen C. Hayne

The database system is typically part of a much larger information system used to manage the ...

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