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Re:The Value of Bitemporality – Whose Time Is It Anyway? by lichtenberger on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:27PM (#19713654)
Hm, and why storing so much information redundantly? Why not providing a tailored index structure... basically snapshotting page-trees efficiently :-)
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Re:The Value of Bitemporality – Whose Time Is It Anyway? by ToBeBannedSoon on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:51PM (#19713798)
If the db internally supports efficient temporal tracking, then yes by all means. If it doesn't, then I don't see a way for the developer around the redundancy.
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