1. A Brief History of Temporal Data Management
Contents
Excluding Time from Databases: A Ubiquitous Paradigm12 The 1990s14 Temporal Extensions to SQL
14 Data Warehouses and Data Marts Come of Age
14 The Inmon/Kimball Religious Wars
16 The 2000s18 Slowly Changing Dimensions
19 Real-Time Data Warehouses
20 The Future of Databases: Seamless Access to Temporal Data20 Closing In on Seamless Access
22 Temporal data management is not a new development. From the earliest days of business data processing (as it was called back then), transactions were captured in a transaction log and the files and tables those transactions were applied to were periodically backed up. With those ...