Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS'01) A New Tool to Analyze ER-Schemas Hong Kong December 10-December 11 ISBN: 0-7695-1287-9
Cardinality constraints as well as key constraints and functional dependencies are among the most popular classes of constraints in database models. While each constraint class is now well understood, little is done about their interaction. Today cardinality constraints and key constraints are embedded in most CASE tools, which are usually based on the Entity-Relationship model. However, these tools do not offer intelligent consistency checking routines for cardinality constraints. They do not consider the global coherence of them. Conflicts among the constraints are not detected. Our aim is then, to propose a tool for reasoning about a set of cardinality constraints, key and certain functional dependencies in order to help in database design. We will treat the global coherence of cardinality constraints. We propose two steps: a syntactical analysis according to our ER Meta-schema and a semantic analysis in order to verify the cardinality constraints and their interactions.
Index Terms:
Conceptual modeling, Information System, Entity- Relationship model, Meta-modeling, ER Meta-model, CASE tools, Constraints, Cardinality constraints, Valid ER-schemas
Citation:
F. Boufares, N. Kraïem, "A New Tool to Analyze ER-Schemas," apaqs, pp.0302, Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS'01), 2001 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||