Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data introduces basic concepts that will enable businesses to develop their own framework for managing temporal data. It discusses the management of uni-temporal and bi-temporal data in relational databases, so that they can be seamlessly accessed together with current data; the encapsulation of temporal data structures and processes; ways to implement temporal data management as an enterprise solution; and the internalization of pipeline datasets. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 traces the history of temporal data management and presents a taxonomy of bi-temporal data management methods. Part 2 provides an introduction to Asserted Versioning, covering the origins of Asserted Versioning; core concepts of Asserted Versioning; the schema common to all asserted version tables, as well as the various diagrams and notations used in the rest of the book; and how the basic scenario works when the target of that activity is an asserted version table. Part 3 deals with designing, maintaining, and querying asserted version databases. It discusses the design of Asserted Versioning databases; temporal transactions; deferred assertions and other pipeline datasets; Allen relationships; and optimizing Asserted Versioning databases.
ISBN: | 9780123750419 |
Publication date: | 19th August 2010 |
Author: | Tom (Chief Scientist, Asserted Versioning, LLC, Atlanta, GA) Johnston, Randall (Founder and CEO, InBase Inc., Lemont, IL, Weis |
Publisher: | Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In an imprint of Elsevier Science & Technology |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 512 pages |
Genres: |
Database programming Business and Management Databases Enterprise software |