Title
On the semantics of “now” in databases
Abstract
Although “now” is expressed in SQL and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP within queries, this value cannot be stored in the database. How ever, this notion of an ever-increasing current-time value has been reflected in some temporal data models by inclusion of database-resident variables, such as “now” “until-changed, ” “**,” “@,” and “-”. Time variables are very desirable, but their used also leads to a new type of database, consisting of tuples with variables, termed a variable database.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1145/249978.249980
ACM Trans. Database Syst.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
ever-increasing current-time value,new type,database-resident variable,variable database,time variable,temporal data model
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0362-5915
105
PageRank 
References 
Authors
26.91
37
5
Search Limit
100105
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James Clifford11217435.55
Curtis Dyreson227740.59
Tomás Isakowitz3739127.97
Christian S. Jensen4106511129.45
Richard T. Snodgrass534251143.72