Re: Need for temporal database systems

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sans11_at_hotmail.com (san) wrote in message news:<8e29a54a.0207282219.7eeffdd7_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> I have been looking into temporal database systems. One thing I want
> to find out is why are they needed instead of say a normal RDBMS? I
> understand that one reason is the inability of SQL to handle temporal
> queries(SQL queries become very complex). Another is that they are
> indexed in a different manner so that queries are executed in an
> efficient manner.
>
> Are there any other reasons?
>
> Regards,
> Sandeep
Received on Mon Jul 29 2002 - 18:18:52 CEST