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Temporal Data & the Relational Model

  • 1st Edition - November 19, 2002
  • Authors: C.J. Date, Hugh Darwen, Nikos Lorentzos
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 5 5 8 6 0 - 8 5 5 - 9
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 1 8 7 1 - 8

Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data. Current DBMSs provide essentially no te… Read more

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Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data. Current DBMSs provide essentially no temporal features at all, but this situation is likely to change soon for a variety of reasons; in fact, temporal databases are virtually certain to become important sooner rather than later, in the commercial world as well as in academia. This book provides an in-depth description of the foundations and principles on which those temporal DBMSs will be built. These foundations and principles are firmly rooted in the relational model of data; thus, they represent an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary one, and they will stand the test of time.