Maintaining Consistency in a Database with Changing Types

``Maintaining Consistency in a Database with Changing Types'' by Stanley B. Zdonik. {SIGPLAN} Notices, vol. 21, no. 10, Oct. 1986, pp. 120-127.
Annotation: A nice summary of the ideas presented in [skarra86management]. Ignores the issue of changes to the type hierarchy; just deals with version changes that add/remove/change methods and fields.

BibTeX entry:

@article{zdonik86maintaining,
   author = {Stanley B. Zdonik},
   title = {Maintaining Consistency in a Database with Changing Types},
   journal = {{SIGPLAN} Notices},
   volume = {21},
   number = {10},
   pages = {120--127},
   month = oct,
   year = {1986}
}

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Sameer Ajmani