Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 3: Saving Data


 

The temporal database is a database that can keep information on time when the facts represented in the database were, are, or will be valid. We briefly described major concepts of temporal databases and discussed types of queries that such databases can support in part 1 of this article(Saving Data Historically with Temporal Tables: Part 1: Queries) and discussed how aggregation can work in temporal databases in the part 2 (Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 2: Computing Aggregates Across Temporal Versions).

In both parts 1 and 2 we assumed that data are somehow stored in the temporal tables and concentrated