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Temporal databases represent the practically most important logical extension of relational databases since temporal information plays an essential role in many application domains. It is expected that the temporal database language standard TSQL2 proposed in Snodgrass, 1995 will be included in future versions of SQL. We show how the notions of a database table, of natural inference and of table operations have to be generalized in order to accommodate temporally qualified information.
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Wagner, G. (1998). Temporal Databases. In: Foundations of Knowledge Systems. The Kluwer International Series on Advances in Database Systems, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5723-4_7
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