6. Diagrams and Other Notations
Contents
The Asserted Version Table120 The Temporal Primary Key
122 The Temporal Foreign Key
123 The Effective Time Period
124 The Episode Begin Date
124 The Assertion Time Period
124 The Basic Asserted Versioning Diagram125 Additional Diagrams and Notations130 Viewing the Asserted Version Table132 The Conventional Table View
133 The Version Table View
134 The Assertion Table View
135 Views and Mental Images137 In the first section of this chapter, we present the schema common to all asserted version tables, using a table of health insurance policies as an example. All of the concepts introduced in the last chapter, such as objects, episodes, versions and assertions, and the two ...