Re: Q: Version Control or Content History in databases ?

If you want to look at research, scan for information related to "temporal databases". It's not an easy problrm domain.

Sascha Kompass wrote:
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> Hi group,
>
> is there any such thing like version control or content history in a
> database system ? I think of such a thing like CVS for database content.
>
> It should be possible to make queries like:
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> SELECT x,y FROM table WHERE SYSDATE = date
>
> Is this a topic of interest to database theoreticists ?
>
> (The real problems start when you want this to be still _fast_
> and foreign key handling fully operable in the desired sense.)
>
> Do you see any practical way to acomplish such a thing ?
>
> Every input is welcome,
> Sascha
Received on Wed Oct 24 2001 - 01:01:15 CDT