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Time Variant Solution Definition
Equally important in the difficulties of Time Variance are those aspects of Time Variance that cause, and do not cause, a performance degradation. In Chapter 10, the explanation of difficulties inherent in Time Variant data did not include any confusion about time, time intervals, hierarchies, hierarchy relationships, or any other aspect of relational data or a data warehouse. That being the case, the concept of a data warehouse built on an RDBMS platform is still a sturdy architecture and has not diminished in strength or flexibility due to any concerns about Time Variant data. So, we don’t need to solve the RDBMS problem, the data warehouse problem, the relational hierarchy problem, or any other such ...
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