Temporal Data Mining

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program that needs to access a specic database management system has

to import and register the appropriate driver. In the program, we import

the Oracle

TM

driver and the corresponding importation and registration

statements are

import oracle.jdbc.driver.*;

and

DriverManager.registerDriver (new oracle.jdbc.driver.

OracleDriver());

Java oers some useful features for temporal queries. Note that as new

releases of Java become available, some of the classes/methods mentioned

below might change or become deprecated. e programs in Appendix B

were compiled using JDK 1.6.0.

A class • Date, which represents an instance in time using year, month,

day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond information. is cla ...