Randall Weis
Randall Weis, founder and CEO of InBase, Inc, has more than 24 years of experience in IT and IT management, specializing in enterprise data architecture. Weis' technical expertise is in sophisticated, multitiered systems. He has designed logical and physical data models and implemented several high profile, very large database (VLDB) systems in the financial and insurance industries. These systems have had very stringent performance and real-time history requirements. His software development company, InBase, Inc., has developed software and Web sites used by some of the nations largest companies. Weis has been a presenter at various user groups, including Guide, Share, Midwest Database Users Group and Camp IT Expo. His technique for modeling history, retro activity and future dating has been reviewed and approved for the physical implementation of IBM's Insurance Application Architecture (IAA). He may be reached via email at randyw@inbaseinc.com.
Recent Stories From this Author
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 28 - A Revised Roadmap
June 12, 2008 We will summarize what we've done so far and proceed to develop an amended roadmap.
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 27 - Original and Temporal Inserts (Concluded)
May 21, 2008 We will proceed now to a discussion of original and temporal inserts.
Time and Time Again - Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 26: Points in Time and Periods of Time
May 9, 2008 Previous discussions require another digression into how to use pairs of dates to represent periods of time.
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 25 - Original and Temporal Inserts
April 29, 2008 We turn to temporal integrity constraints as they apply to insert and to upsert transactions.ü
Time and Time Again - Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 24: Original and Temporal Updates (Concluded)
April 9, 2008 As this series continues, context becomes increasingly important so that the thread of the discussion is not lost.
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 23 - Original and Temporal Updates
March 25, 2008 This article continues our discussion reviewing temporal RI rules.
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases - Part 22: Original and Temporal Deletes
March 6, 2008 This article completes our discussion of delete transactions.
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 21 - Enforcement Time Options for Temporal RI
February 22, 2008 In this article we continue our discussion of temporal integrity constraints on a database.
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 20 - RI and Temporal RI (Continued)
February 4, 2008 In this installment, we will begin a discussion of how temporal referential integrity (RI) may be enforced with today's...
Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 19 - RI and Temporal RI
January 25, 2008 In this article, we will consolidate and extend some of the things we have learned about the semantic constraints that apply to...
