Time-Dependent Key Parts 

The key of some views can be divided into a non-time-dependent and a time-dependent part. The records of these views have a time-dependent meaning.

If the prices for a service change depending on the date, this can be recorded in a view that contains a field for the service ID, a field for the date and a field for the price. The field for the service ID is the non-time-dependent part of the key and the field for the date is the time-dependent part of the key. If the view has maintenance status ‘M’, you can insert records whose service ID is identical to that of existing records. However, you cannot insert records with new IDs.

You can therefore insert records in maintenance status ‘M’ for which the time-dependent part of the key is different from that of existing records. However, you cannot insert records for which the non-time-dependent part of the key differs from existing records.