| ### Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL ### by Richard T. Snodgrass ### Morgan Kaufmann Publishers |

## Contents

Chapter 1 | Introduction
Chapter 2 | Fundamental Concepts
Chapter 3 | Instants and Intervals
Chapter 4 | Periods
Chapter 5 | Defining State Tables
Chapter 6 | Querying State Tables
Chapter 7 | Modifying State Tables
Chapter 8 | Retaining a Tracking Log
Chapter 9 | Transaction-Time State Tables
Chapter 10 | Bitemporal Tables
Chapter 11 | Temporal Database Design
Chapter 12 | Language Directions
Chapter 13 | Prospects

This CD-ROM has a fairly simple structure (see the site map for more details). It contains code fragments from the book implemented in a variety of commercial systems, including IBM DB2 Universal Database, Ingres, Informix-Universal Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase SQLServer, Oracle8 Server, and UniSQL. While these code fragments have been tested, the author and the publisher make no claims as to the suitability or correctness of these code fragments. The code fragments are for illustrative purposes only. They emphasize readability over performance or portability.

Also included are versions of some of the programs discussed in the book, white papers on temporal database topics, and change proposals and expert contributes submitted to the SQL standards committees. The various principles found throughout the book are available here. Finally, we include links appearing in the book. As the Web pages referenced by these links are out of our control, the author and the publisher make no claims as to their suitability.

To view the content of this CDROM, you have to install a Web browser and Acrobat Reader+Search 3.0. The latest version of Netscape Navigator can be obtained at http://www.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html. The latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer can be obtained at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm.

Included on the CDROM are version of Acrobat Reader+Search 3.0 for Windows (3.x, 9x, and NT), Apple Macintosh, IBM OS/2, and Unix (Linux, Solaris and SunOS). Refer to acrobat/doc.htm for more information on installing this from the CDROM.

####

#### HTML Credits

Jose Alvin G. Gendrano, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona (jag@cs.arizona.edu)
Jian Yang, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona (yangjian@cs.arizona.edu)
May 25, 1999 (Last Update)

### Xenu was used for checking links.