Dealing with Temporal Schema Anomalies in History Databases

Summary: Addresses temporal schema anomalies in history databases from non-destructive updates and legacy-schema coexistence. Outlines techniques for maintaining multiple historically valid schemas and proposes Schema Temporal Logic (STL) to query across them. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7800
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 4.7701967e-05
Overall Rank: 7,299 | 49.23%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,982	A logical framework for temporal deductive databases	1988	VLDB	4.613363e-05

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293	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00028676087
580	On An Algebra For Historical Relational Databases. Two Views	1985	SIGMOD	0.00019786623

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