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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
15. Optimizing Asserted Versioning Databases
Bi-Temporal, Conventional, and Non-Temporal Databases350
Data Volumes in Bi-Temporal and in Conventional Databases350
Response Times in Bi-Temporal and in Conventional Databases351
The Optimization Drill: Modify, Monitor, Repeat351
Performance Tuning Bi-Temporal Tables Using Indexes352
General Considerations353
Indexes to Optimize Queries354
Indexes to Optimize Temporal Referential Integrity366
Other Techniques for Performance Tuning Bi-Temporal Tables372
Avoiding MAX(dt) Predicates372
NULL vs. 12/31/9999372
Partitioning373
Clustering375
Materialized Query Tables376
Standard Tuning Techniques377
Glossary References378
One concern about Asserted Versioning is with how well it will perform. We believe that ...
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