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Many enterprises suffer from the problems of heterogeneous data (base) systems, such as redundancy and lack of control. Existing approaches either try to couple the database systems into a federation (FDBS) or migrate data to a single (often new) database system. This paper proposes an integration of both concepts by incorporating migration facilities into an FDBS. General FDBS concepts couple the...