The solution I’ve provided in Joining Temporal Intervals produces wrong results if one or more temporal tables have gaps in their history or if disconnected intervals have the same content. In this post I’ll address both problems. Test Data The example queries are based on the same model as described in Joining Temporal […]

In Joining Temporal Intervals I explained how to join multiple temporal tables. The provided solution merges also temporal intervals but – as pointed out in that post – may produce wrong results if the underlying driving table is not gaplessly historized. In this post, I’ll explain how to merge temporal intervals with various […]

From time to time a customer asks me how to join multiple tables with temporal intervals (e.g. defined by two columns such as valid_from and valid_to per row). The solution is quite simple if you may limit your query to a certain point in time like now, yesterday or similar. Such a […]