A homogeneous relational model and query languages for temporal databases

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 418-448

  Gadia, Shashi K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Historical databases; relational calculus; relational model; temporal data; temporal databases; time; tuple calculus

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ALGEBRA;

QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL ALGEBRA; RELATIONAL CALCULUS; TEMPORAL DATABASES; TUPLE CALCULUS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0024130068     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/49346.50065     Document Type: Article

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