snodgrass

Some notion of bitemporalism showed up in SQL 2011, but somewhat constrained compared to what Snodgrass describes.

Readings and conversations have taken me to deep questions explored in works by Snodgrass [0], Jensen[1], and Jepsen [2].

The Snodgrass book goes into amazing detail as to why you'd do such a thing and how to do it.

I'm not some snooty William Snodgrass Brunswick the 7th who's bitter over the fall of the aristocracy.

MongoDB entirely disregarded the relational model whereas bitemporality—as envisioned by Snodgrass et al.

One with Richard Snodgrass is yet to be published...

> Snodgrass was busted after a Delaware County election worker questioned the signature on his father’s ballot.

I think the original intuition by Snodgrass et al.

Snodgrass will have medals and be described by establishment types as a "National Hero." It goes with rising through the ranks.

Imagine Major General Snodgrass says "we must go to war with Russia now and hang it if it's nuclear!" Someone responds that Snodgrass is an idiot, a fool, a bounder and trying to compensate for the fact that he is slightly less sexually attractive to humans than a badger that was hit by a lorry last tuesday fortnight.

Snodgrass wrote a whole book on that topic: Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (1999).

Snodgrass, a leading researcher on temporal databases, wrote a book in 90s about it which is available for free from his website[1].

When I read Snodgrass's book it all went clunk and I've been a wild-haired proselyte ever since.