Chapter 20

Recommendations

This chapter contains recommendations for the deployment of bitemporal functionality in end-user IT organizations, and for the improvement of the bitemporal data standard and its implementation in DBMSs. These are recommendations for what we can do right now that will have a direct impact on the use of bitemporal technology by IT professionals and database users.

Keywords

atomic statement; correction; future assertion time; object state; ontology; referent identifier; reflection; row identifier; semantic serialization; state time; statement; state-time table; tritemporal

In the previous chapter, I described three directions in which I believe relational databases should evolve. But more generally, my intention was to describe ...

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