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Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data introduces basic concepts that will enable businesses to develop their own framework for managing temporal data. It discusses the management of uni-temporal and bi-temporal data in relational databases, so that they can be seamlessly accessed together with current data; the encapsulation o
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Hardcover, 478 pages
Published
July 27th 2010
by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
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The first half of the book, minus the advertisements for their product, was helpful. Chapters would start out with great overviews, some excellent diagrams throughout them, and even stepped through the various sub-tasks of temporal actions on a single entity within a single bi-temporal table.
The second half of the book, when when they started to delve into the real problems that would be faced by someone trying to implement a bi-temporal framework, fell short. For instance, the first half of the ...more
The second half of the book, when when they started to delve into the real problems that would be faced by someone trying to implement a bi-temporal framework, fell short. For instance, the first half of the ...more
Tom Johnston and Randal Weis, Managing Time in Relational Databases (Morgan Kaufmann, 2010)
Full disclosure: this book was provided to me free of charge by Amazon Vine.
Good lord, it took me forever to get round to finishing this. Three hundred forty days, according to the spreadsheet; I probably should have just let twenty-five more run out, but I wanted to get it off my plate. When I picked it up, like a few other reviewers (judging by their reviews), I was unaware that it was a textbook. I'm no ...more
Full disclosure: this book was provided to me free of charge by Amazon Vine.
Good lord, it took me forever to get round to finishing this. Three hundred forty days, according to the spreadsheet; I probably should have just let twenty-five more run out, but I wanted to get it off my plate. When I picked it up, like a few other reviewers (judging by their reviews), I was unaware that it was a textbook. I'm no ...more
I've read only part of the book, but it's great in describing the basic concepts and problems of time management in RDB. Great introduction.
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