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Nonsequenced Semantics

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Nontemporal semantics

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Nonsequenced semantics guarantees that query language statements can reference and manipulate the timestamps that capture the valid and transaction time of data in temporal databases as regular attribute values, with no built-in temporal semantics being enforced by the query language.

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A temporal database generalizes a nontemporal database and associates one or more timestamps with database entities. Different authors have suggested temporal query languages that provide advanced support for formulating temporal statements. Results of these efforts include a variety of temporal extensions of SQL, temporal algebras, and temporal logics that simplify the management of temporal data.

Languages with built-in temporal support are attractive because they offer convenient support for formulating a wide range of common temporal statements. The classical example of advanced built-in temporal support is sequenced semantics, which makes it...

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  1. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Michael H. Böhlen

  2. Aalborg University, Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300, DK-9220, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

    Christian S. Jensen

  3. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Richard T. Snodgrass

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  1. Michael H. Böhlen
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Correspondence to Michael H. Böhlen , Christian S. Jensen or Richard T. Snodgrass .

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Richard T. Snodgrass

  2. Aalborg University, Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300, DK-9220, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

    Christian S. Jensen Ph.D.

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Böhlen, M.H., Jensen, C.S., Snodgrass, R.T. (2016). Nonsequenced Semantics. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1052-2

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