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As you add effective dates to the data and keep historical rows showing changes over time, even queries about the current state of the business are complicated and difcult to compose. Or, if you capture database snapshots periodically, your analytical ability is limited by the spotty nature of your historical data.
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number of entries and tracks the required effective date information. So you and your business can gain a complete view of the data over timedata that are automatically maintained. Existing queries, those standard queries about current situations in existing applications, will continue to execute unchanged. But queries with a temporal aspect (those based on a particular time, or a query combining some elements at one time and other elements at another) can be specied much more simply, often by placing a prex in front of a standard query. This allows minimal new SQL knowledge or changes and makes it easier to use business intelligence (BI) tools that arent temporal aware for temporal analysis.
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Denim pants (125,101) arrive at store R, as scanned by RFID scanner.
Figure 1. Two examples of how queries can be simplified when you have a time-aware database.
Those optimizations and enhanced technical capabilities make it much easier to implement your temporal logic and business applications. And they also make it easier to derive much more value from your data by providing users throughout your enterprise a more complete view of your business over time.
will provide you with new insights and a better understanding of your business by being able to clearly see how things have changed over time or how they looked at any point in time.
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