International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 Integrity Constraints in Temporal Relational Databases Las Vegas, Nevada April 05-April 07 ISBN: 0-7695-2108-8
The article addresses the key issues of integrity constraints in temporal data within the relational framework. These issues include representation of temporal data, temporal grouping identifiers, primary keys of temporal relations and other forms of temporal integrity constraints. We extend the traditional integrity constraints to the temporal domain. In tackling subtle issues of temporality in managing time-varying data, we conceptualize that a temporal integrity constraint has a data and a temporal (time) component. The time component of a temporal integrity constraint limits the attribute values to the lifespan of an object (tuple) and it is peculiar to temporal data only. We also generalize single state integrity constraints to multi-state temporal integrity constraints and apply them to existential and referential integrity.
Index Terms:
Existential Integrity, Integrity Constraints, Referential Integrity, Temporal Relations, Temporal Databases, Temporal Integrity Constraints
Citation:
Abdullah Uz Tansel, "Integrity Constraints in Temporal Relational Databases," itcc, vol. 2, pp.460, International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2, 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||