Documenting a Database System with a Database
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Authors
Hunter, D.A.
Issue Date
1984
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Article
Language
en
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Abstract
The South African Data Centre for Oceanography (SADCO) has implemented a multi d1sc1plinary oceanographic database
using OMS 170, a relational database management system Using a high level query language sc1ent1sts from all over
the country are able to access the database and browse the data freely In add1t1on SADCO has other more specialized
databases and also datasets as independent files, and in various other non computerized forms A vast number of
programs and procedures to load and modify the database and produce plots or tables from the database have been
developed For this reason a 'data d1ct1onary system (the Data Catalogue) has been developed as a 'micro' database,
using the Query Update language for the purpose of documenting the contents of the database, the resources of the
data centre and the events that take place daily to modify resources The user can access this Data Catalogue using
the same query language that 1s used to access the main database
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Citation
DA Hunter (1984) Documenting a Database System with a Database. Quaestiones Informaticae Vol 3 No 1, 1984
Publisher
Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT)
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0254-2757