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Re: MUPSERT IN TRIGGER

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:30:55 +0200
Message-ID: <bjpf5190cdlm7e8j8b65152pu60o0orlk6@4ax.com>


On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 07:17:58 -0400, Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:

>He doesn't? When did you talk to Chris?
>The SQL Standard is not a perfect implementation of the relational
>theory which purists quite rightly have issues with. But I doubt that
>Chris wants the standard to _go_away_.

a Dutch IT magazine recently interviewed Chris Date. The interview ran down into a declaration of war to the SQL standard, as *all of the vendors* (so including IBM) had made a mess of it, and misused SQL for purposes it was never intended to.
Date is now working on another RDBMS, which would fully implement relational principles, without taking commercial issues into account.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Sat Apr 09 2005 - 09:30:55 CDT

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