Temporal Data & the Relational Model

by C.J. Date, Hugh Darwen, Nikos Lorentzos, et al.

Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data. Current DBMSs provide essentially no temporal features at all, but this situation is likely to change soon for a variety of reasons; in fact, temporal databases are virtually certain to become important sooner rather than later, in the commercial world as well as in academia. This book provides an in-depth description...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558608559
• ISBN13: 9781558608559
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"