An Architectural Framework

In this chapter we address the question of how to construct a DBMS architecture supporting TSQL2. Our goal is to enumerate the changes that a conventional DBMS would need to support TSQL2. We are concerned with modifying a conventional DBMS in a minimal fashion to support TSQL2. While a more elaborate architecture is possible (likely with significant performance gains), our purpose is to describe the “first step” towards the realization of a temporal DBMS.