Developing
Time-Oriented
Database
Applications
in SQL

Richard T. Snodgrass

MANIPULATING DATA TYPES


 


 

Contents :

This document outlines temporal data type support for the Microsoft Access DBMS, as described in Chapters 2 & 3. It follows the general outline of the TDB book and is arranged in the following manner.

Instants and Intervals

Operations
Examples

Periods

Operations
Examples

 

Generic Implementation Details

Schema for the Examples

Employee Table (Test Data)

 

Name 
STRING
Birthdate 
DATE
Project_time 
TIME
Checkin_time 
TIMESTAMP
Checkout_time 
TIMESTAMP

 

Instants and Intervals

Operations

Microsoft Access 2000
IBM DB2 Universal Server
Informix Universal Server
Ingres
Oracle8 Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Sybase SQL Server
UniSQL

Examples

Microsoft Access 2000
Informix Universal Server
Ingres
Oracle8 Server
Sybase SQL Server
UniSQL

 

Periods

Operations

Microsoft Access 2000
IBM DB2 Universal Server
Informix Universal Server
Ingres
Oracle8 Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Sybase SQL Server
UniSQL

Examples

Microsoft Access 2000
Informix Universal Server
Ingres
Oracle8 Server
Sybase SQL Server
UniSQL

 HTML  Credits

Jose Alvin G. Gendrano, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona (jag@cs.arizona.edu)
Rachana R. Shah, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona (rachana@cs.arizona.edu)
Jian Yang, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona (yangjian@cs.arizona.edu)
April 28, 1999(Last Update)