Recursive natural join operation in bitemporal nested relations
by Georgia Garani
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS), Vol. 7, No. 4, 2013

Abstract: The natural join operation for bitemporal attribute timestamping nested relations of arbitrary depth is formally defined. The advantages of nesting, recursion, and attribute timestamping are combined. Different cases of the operation are distinguished, relevant to the number, the type and the nesting levels of the common attributes involved. An algorithm is presented for the generalised case. The natural join operation is proved to be a consistent extension of the natural join operation of the conventional relational model. The notion of the temporal nested key is redefined.

Online publication date: Mon, 31-Mar-2014

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