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Managing Time in Relational Databases
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Managing Time in Relational Databases

by Tom Johnston, Randall Weis
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
13h 53m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
Content preview from Managing Time in Relational Databases
4. The Origins of Asserted Versioning
IT Best Practices
Contents
A Non-Temporal Table and a Basic Version Table77
Basic Versioning79
An Insert Transaction79
An Update Transaction80
A Second Update Transaction81
A Delete Transaction82
Logical Delete Versioning83
Temporal Gap Versioning86
Effective Time Versioning87
Effective Time Versioning and Retroactive Updates89
Effective Time Versioning and Retroactive Inserts and Deletions90
The Scope and Limits of Best Practice Versioning92
Glossary References93
Lots of things are important to us. That's why we keep data about them in our databases. In a non-temporal table, each one of them, i.e. each object, is represented by one and only one row. In a version table, however, each row represents a period of time ...
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ISBN: 9780123750419