Worry-Free Database Upgrades: Automated Model-Driven Evolution of Schemas and Complex Mappings

Summary: MoDEF extends Visual Studio to automate evolution of EF object-relational mappings. It translates client-model changes into incremental store upgrades with a new mapping, and mines existing mappings for reusable patterns to ensure valid, consistent upgrades. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4408
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,437 | 14.68%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807316

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Authors

1. James F. Terwilliger (Microsoft)
2. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)
3. Adi Unnithan (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{terwilliger_sigmod10,
        title = {{Worry-Free Database Upgrades: Automated Model-Driven Evolution of Schemas and Complex Mappings}},
        author = {Terwilliger, James F. and Bernstein, Philip A. and Unnithan, Adi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807316},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807316},
        year = {2010}
}

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1,194	Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve	2005	VLDB	0.00011730556
2,464	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.5480977e-05

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