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Up to date there exists no commercially available Temporal Database Management System (TDBMS). Current information server technology addresses ‘time’ only to a limited extent, in the form of special purpose application programs. The ORES TDBMS, an ESPRIT project currently under development, is a system in which the success and adequacy of management of time related information is paramount. A major step towards achieving such an objective is the provision of a query language powerful enough to express queries, no matter how complex, and yet easy to use. ERT-SQL is such a language.
This paper, which is mainly devoted to this language, first presents an overview of the ORES project, followed by a brief description of the conceptual data model aspects. Then, the capabilities of the query language ERT-SQL are illustrated with a number of examples. There follows a summary and concluding remarks.
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Theodoulidis, B., Ait-Braham, A., Karvelis, G. (1994). The ORES Temporal DBMS and the ERT-SQL query language. In: Karagiannis, D. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58435-8_191
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