ID - 131761689 TI - Bitemporal data : theory and practice. PY - 2014 SN - 9780124080553 0124080553 0124080677 9780124080676 132216701X PB - Waltham, Massachusetts : Morgan Kaufmann, DB - UniCat KW - Temporal databases. KW - Database management. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131761689 AB - Bitemporal data is coming, and major database management systems are beginning to support it. You need to know what is going on ""under the hood"" and this book that will make you the expert on bitemporal data that every IT organization should have on its staff. There''s a lot more to bitemporal data than adding a second timestamp to history tables: for example, a temporal update of a single customer in a bitemporal customer table could require up to a dozen physical SQL transactions to complete. Vendors will eventually make it possible to write bitemporal transactions and bitemporal queri ER -