The Database Designer's Workbench

The Database Designer's Workbench is a graphics-oriented decision support system for database design, providing designers with a convenient environment for specifying database structures and experimenting with different design strategies. A prototype version has been implemented on the Honeywell Multics system using the IBM Personal Computer as the interface. Tools for conceptual design and distributed data allocation are provided. This paper describes the Workbench design objectives, system architecture, and current status.