Database users refer to database objects by using their identifiers, ie, names. Good names
of database objects facilitate understanding of the data in the database and its usage by …

In this paper, we investigate the usage of naming conventions in SQL programming. To this
end, we define a reference style, consisting of naming conventions that have been proposed …

In this thesis, two cases of database integration are analyzed to study the problem of name
management. Name management is defined as the capability to recognize that two names …

An important problem for databases is amplifying efficiency of human-database interaction.
This goal can be achieved on different levels where queries form the top level and data …

Many DB management systems use SQL syntax in order to provide a mechanism for data
accessing. Although SQL is widely used, its syntax is not very comprehensive to a typical …

We investigated the quality of database conceptual schemas of PostgreSQL databases of
four existing programs, three of which were open source. We automated the process with a …

Abstract System catalog, which is a part of each SQL database, is a repository where the
data in its base tables describes the SQL-schemas (schemas) in the database. The SQL …

Knowing which database management system to use for a project is difficult to know in
advance. Luckily, there are tools that can help the developer apply the same database …

The system catalog of a database with explicit schemas contains among other things
information about the structure of the database. Queries based on the system catalog allow …

How many times do we as SQL developers or DBAs find ourselves shuffling through objects
in Enterprise Manager or expanding the left pane of Query Analyzer, trying to find a table or …