A decision support model for database design

Abstract

A model is proposed that is aimed at supporting the database designer at the latter stages of system design. Tools exist for helping the system effort at the analysis or logical design stage, but once the system has been defined the designer is left with many decisions which will affect system construction and the maintenance stage. Therefore, this effort is analogous to the CASE methodology which encompasses all system development stages of an information system that is based on a database.<>