202Solving Operational Business Intelligence with InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition
5.2.3 Temporal data management with business time
Business time refers to the time, either a simple date or down to the granularity of
a time stamp, that has particular meaning in a business context. The date on
which a legal contract goes into effect or the date that a sale coupon expires are
both examples of business time.
Business time might or might not be the same as the corresponding system time
for an event, and the two can be completely unrelated. For example, a
change-of-address card received by the post office might be entered into the
system on ...
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