Snodgrass, R.T., editor, The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, 674+xxiv pages.

ftp to the TSQL2 directory at the University of Arizona

This directory contains the language specification for a temporal
extension to the SQL-92 language standard. This new language is
designated TSQL2.


The language specification present here is the final version of the
language.


Correspondence may be directed to the chair of the TSQL2 Language
Design Committee, Richard T.Snodgrass, Department of Computer
Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
<rts@cs.arizona.edu>.  The affiliations and e-mail addresses of the
TSQL2 Language Design Committee members may be found in a separate
section at the end of the language specification.


The contents of this directory are as follows.


spec.dvi,.ps    TSQL2 Language Specification


Associated with the language specification is a collection of
commentaries which discuss design decisions, provide examples, and
consider how the language may be implemented. These commentaries were
originally proposals to the TSQL2 Language Design Committee. They now
serve a different purpose: to provide examples of the constructs,
motivate the many decisions made during the language design, and
compare TSQL2 with the many other language proposals that have been
made over the last fifteen years. It should be emphasized that these
commentaries are not part of the TSQL2 language specification per se,
but rather supplement and elaborate upon it. The language
specification proper is the final word on TSQL2.


The commentaries, along with the language specification, several
indexes, and other supporting material, has been published as a book,
to appear in September, 1995:


Snodgrass, R.T., editor, The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1995, 674+xxiv pages.


The evaluation commentary appears in the book in an abbreviated form; the
full commentary is provided in this directory as file eval.ps


The file tl2tsql2.pl is a prolog program that tranlates allowed temporal
logic to TSQL2. This program was written by Michael Boehlen
<boehlen@cs.arizona.edu> He may be contacted for a paper that 
describes this translation.