--- "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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])