Managing Time in Relational Databases

16. Conclusion

Seamless Access to Temporal Data381

Encapsulation of Temporal Data Structures and Processes383

Design Encapsulation384

Maintenance Encapsulation386

Query Encapsulation387

The Internalization of Pipeline Datasets388

Performance390

Enterprise Contextualization390

Asserted Versioning as a Bridge and as a Destination391

Asserted Versioning as a Bridge391

Asserted Versioning as a Destination392

Ongoing Research and Development393

Going Forward396

Glossary References396

In the Preface, we listed four objectives for this book. Those objectives were to explain how to support:

(i) Seamless access to temporal data;

(ii) The encapsulation of temporal data structures and processes;

(iii) The internalization of pipeline datasets; and

(iv) The enterprise ...