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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
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5. The Core Concepts of Asserted Versioning
Contents
Objects, Episodes, Versions and Assertions97
Objects97
Episodes98
Versions100
Assertions102
Temporal Integrity Constraints104
Temporal Entity Integrity104
Temporal Referential Integrity108
Bi-Temporal Tables and Non-Bi-Temporal Views111
Surrogate Keys and Bi-Temporal Match Logic115
Surrogate Keys, Business Keys and Conventional Tables115
Surrogate Keys, Business Keys and Asserted Version Tables116
Glossary References117
Managed objects are data which transformations and constraints treat as a single unit. In the relational model, individual rows of data are the managed objects to which integrity constraints are applied, and these individual rows of data each represent a different object. One object: ...
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ISBN: 9780123750419