Dealing with Temporal Schema Anomalies in History Databases

Summary: Addresses schema evolution in append-only history databases, where obsolete schemas remain queryable and cross-schema queries require mappings. Introduces Schema Temporal Logic (STL) to translate across valid schemas, exposing a coherent virtual schema while preserving historical designs and data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h71b1491639d65fa3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 5.3942942e-05
Overall Rank: 8,121 | 45.40%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. N.G. Martin (University of Florida)
2. S.B. Navathe (University of Florida)
3. R. Ahmed (University of Florida)

BibTeX Citation

@article{martin_vldb87,
        title = {{Dealing with Temporal Schema Anomalies in History Databases}},
        author = {Martin, N.G. and Navathe, S.B. and Ahmed, R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        pages = {177},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,453	A logical framework for temporal deductive databases	1988	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
339	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00020570509
691	On An Algebra For Historical Relational Databases. Two Views	1985	SIGMOD	0.00014743297

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