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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781166703321

Autore

Johnston Tom

Titolo

Managing time in relational databases [[electronic resource] ] : how to design, update and query temporal data / / Tom Johnston, Randall Weis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, c2010

ISBN

1-282-69983-0

9786612699832

0-08-096337-4

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WeisRandall

Disciplina

005.753

005.756

Soggetti

Temporal databases

Relational databases

Database management

Querying (Computer science)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. An introduction to temporal data management -- pt. 2. An introduction to asserted versioning -- pt. 3. Designing, maintaining and querying asserted version databases.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a comprehensive view of how to manage a temporal database.  Temporal data management refers to an integrated method of managing data about the past, present, and future of the objects and events of interest to the user.  That is, managing non-current data in relational databases in such a way that past data can be seamlessly accessed together with current data with result sets containing both current and non-current data that can be retrieved with queries simple enough for a business user to write and with result set response times very close to those for result sets contain