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design processes: requirement analysis, conceptual design, normalisation, schema integration, logical design, physical design, schema optimisation, code generation.

transformations: schema transformation, model transformation, ETL.
reverse engineering and program understanding: schema analysis (COBOL, CODASYL, IMS, IDMS, SQL, XML, ...), code analysis, data and data flow reverse engineering.

maintenance, evolution and integration: database migration, database evolution, impact analysis, database integration and federation, data wrapper design and generation.

and many other domains like temporal and active databases, datawarehouse, XML engineering...

DB-MAIN also includes meta-modeling components that allow its users to develop new functions and extend its repository."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }