Philipp SalvisbergHow do you enforce temporal data integrity?
With SQL Assertions in Oracle AI Database, we can now implement constraints such as:
✅ Non-overlapping validity periods
✅ Temporal referential integrity
Here's a practical example using an extended DEPT-EMP model.
https://www.salvis.com/blog/2026/03/09/using-sql-assertions-to-enforce-temporal-data-integrity/
Using SQL Assertions to Enforce Temporal Data Integrity
Introduction More than twelve years ago, I described the multi-temporal features of Oracle Database in this blog post. In the conclusion, I wrote that I missed a temporal DML API, temporal integrity constraints, temporal joins, and temporal aggregations. These features are still missing today. However, in the latest version of Oracle AI […]