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Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench
Summary: PRISM supports online schema evolution via modification operators, impact analysis, query rewriting, and automatic data migration. Mapping composition/invertibility enable scalable versioning with provenance, rollback, and historical queries, validated across 170+ Wikipedia schemas.
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Paper ID
h3df88df51885e113
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
9.0852947e-05
Overall Rank
2,073 | 86.07%
DOI
10.14778/1453856.1453943
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@article{curino_vldb08,
title = {{Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench}},
author = {Curino, Carlo A. and Moon, Hyun J. and Zaniolo, Carlo},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '08},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages = {761--772},
doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453943},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453943},
year = {2008}
}
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