Summary: | With the exponential rise on the use of computers recently,
different technologies on data management have appeared as well.
Apart from the existent data storage type, what used to be the best
solution, nowadays, can not be viable anymore due to financial,
strength questions or compatibility with the new technologies. In this
case, arises the need, in a big scale, of data migration between
databases. Therefore, this work aims to the development of a tool that
will support the user during the exchange from a relational database to
another, as well as the data reengineering, aiming in keep the data
straightforward. The tool main purpose is to enable the tables,
attributes and relationships that composes the old database be mapped
according to the elements in the new modeling, taking in account that
the data be transported to the new database management system in a
semi automated way, always preserving the integrity of the data base.
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