Providing Database Migration Tools: A Practitioner's View

Summary: A practitioner-oriented review of migrating legacy hierarchical/network databases to relational systems. It uniquely compares three strategies—data/code conversion, language transformation, and cross-system data propagation—highlighting their trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8501
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
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Overall Rank: 14,289 | 1.97%
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1. Andreas Meier (CSS Insurance)

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@article{meier_vldb95,
        title = {{Providing Database Migration Tools: A Practitioner's View}},
        author = {Meier, Andreas},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        pages = {635},
        year = {1995}
}

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