Extracting an Entity Relationship Schema from a Relational Database through Reverse Engineering.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/er/Andersson94,
  author    = {Martin Andersson},
  editor    = {Pericles Loucopoulos},
  title     = {Extracting an Entity Relationship Schema from a Relational Database
               through Reverse Engineering},
  booktitle = {Entity-Relationship Approach - ER'94, Business Modelling and
               Re-Engineering, 13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship
               Approach, Manchester, U.K., December 13-16, 1994, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {881},
  year      = {1994},
  isbn      = {3-540-58786-1},
  pages     = {403-419},
  ee        = {db/conf/er/Andersson94.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/er/94},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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