Temporal Referential Integrity
This chapter describes referential integrity as it applies to bitemporal tables and to state-time tables, as well as to conventional tables. It describes bitemporal referential integrity as the constraint that the bitemporal area of any child row must be fully contained within the bitemporal area of a set of related parent rows, and explains the semantics which this constraint implements. It provides similar explanations of state-time referential integrity and of conventional referential integrity, and of the semantics they implement.
Keywords
clock tick; decoalesce; episode; existence dependent; referent; statement; temporal referential integrity; withdraw
Referential integrity is a well-understood relational ...
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