--- "Eric D. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for the Snodgrass reference, it is rather similar and pre-dates 
> the book I was looking at.  (Same notion of valid/transaction times, 
> but Date's non-SQL approach)  From a quick skim it doesn't address the 
> distinction Date et al draw between historic and current temporal data; 
> however it looks very useful for mapping their concepts to SQL.
> 
> Eric

You might want to look at Section 7.5 Temporal Partitioning.  One table is used to 
store current
data and another table is used to store historic data.

George

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