Logical Design for Temporal Databases with Multiple Granularities

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-170

  Wang, X Sean ^a   Bettini, Claudio ^b   Brodsky, Alexander ^a   Jajodia, Sushil ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Boyce Codd normal form; Design; Granularity; H.2.1 Database Management : Logical Design normal forms; Normalization; Temporal databases; Temporal modules; Temporal relations; Theory; Third normal form

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000238056     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/249978.249979     Document Type: Article

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