RE: temporal database generation

From: Gentry, Michael \(Contractor\) ("Gentry,)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 10:57:36 EDT

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    Imperial Wars? Wow, that is a flashback. I wasted way too many hours
    on that game ...

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:mkienen..mail.com]
    Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 3:04 PM
    To: cayenne-use..ncubator.apache.org
    Subject: Re: temporal database generation

    On 8/26/06, Eric Lazarus <ericllazaru..ahoo.com> wrote:
    > I guess I was thinking about it done in Tomi's way but if this way can
    ensure that no data is ever lost, that is pretty powerful.
    >
    > What are the advantages of doing it Tomi's way?
    >
    > He can do efficient queries to see what the state of the database
    was at any time in the past? Is that right?
    >
    > He could efficiently materialize objects as they existed at any
    time in the past.

    Yeah, the only real difficulty in doing this is handling join queries.
      Each join has to also eliminate non-relevent data.

    I actually did a lot of this "by hand" for a WebObjects project
    (Imperial Wars) a long time ago. Time was measured in discrete units
    (turns), but it worked pretty much the same way.



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