A support toolset for the development in a temporal database environment

Summary form only given. Relational model lacks the support for a standard approach to manipulate the temporal dimension of data. The development of temporal applications through this model is therefore complex and expensive, especially since it is realized in an ad hoc manner. On the other hand, designers now require simple, rapid and efficient development tools. This motivated our interest in enriching relational model-based development environments in order to improve the fruitfulness of development. We propose the development process and a new support toolset to manipulate time values and manage temporal databases. The proposed toolset is realized as an extension of the oracle forms tool.