I have a business rule which gives me rahter big challenges to "melt in SQL":

At one "point in time" only one version may be active.

I have no specific solution, but I highly recommend Richard Snodgrass's book, Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL, which discusses this kind of situation, and many other similar ones. It's out of print, but available from his homepage as a PDF:

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/

- John D. Burger
  MITRE


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