Managing Time in Relational Databases presents a comprehensive view of how to manage a temporal database. Temporal data management refers to an integrated method of managing data about the past, present, and future of the objects and events of interest to the user. The practical and comprehensive nature of this material is demonstrated in each chapter by a mixture of diagrams and text typical for a book about data architecture and data models. The chapters dealing specifically with managing temporal and bi-temporal data will rely heavily on an example-driven approach, each example presenting specific real-world scenarios.