Title
A Temporal Database Illustration Using TimeDB
Document Type
Project
Advisors
Dr. Jamal Alsabbagh, alsabbaj@gvsu.edu
Embargo Period
3-25-2014
Abstract
In traditional databases, the state of the database at any moment in time represents a snapshot of the enterprise of interest. In such databases, historical information can also be stored but requires the designer to explicitly include additional attributes in order to represent the times at which each data value was created, modified, or deleted. Furthermore, SQL queries that attempt to access historical data need to explicitly reference these time attributes. In contrast, temporal databases provide the primitives that abstract the references to time thereby allowing for a more natural interface to the temporal characteristics of data.
This project demonstrates the use of TimeDB [Ste98] as a front-end temporal extension to Oracle 11g.
ScholarWorks Citation
Broten, Daniel, "A Temporal Database Illustration Using TimeDB" (2013). Technical Library. 168.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cistechlib/168
