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: 7801
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 4.7656202e-05
Overall Rank: 7,296 | 49.30%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,985	A logical framework for temporal deductive databases	1988	VLDB	4.6089395e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
294	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00028649864
581	On An Algebra For Historical Relational Databases. Two Views	1985	SIGMOD	0.00019765969

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