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Towards a UML Profile to Relational Database Modeling |
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PP: 733-743 |
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Author(s) |
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Chih-Min Lo,
Hsiu-Yen Hung,
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Abstract |
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| Database management systems provide a mechanism that enables software application systems to manipulate data from a
database. Although object-oriented technology is widely used in the development of software systems, relational database management
systems remain the dominant database technology. Database modeling enables software developers to design the database during the
system analysis and design phase; however, most approaches focus only on designing database schemas, without considering models
for the retrieval of data. A comprehensive database model would provide a solid base on which software developers could organize
data for storage and retrieval. Unified modeling language (UML) is a general purpose modeling notation and this paper proposes a
UML profile for modeling database retrieval to overcome the inadequacies found in current methods. The proposed model provides
views of the database outlining query operations to enable the automatic generation of more comprehensive code in the model-driven
development of enterprise information systems. We include examples to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method and its
advantages over existing database modeling methods. |
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