Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 07:17:58 -0400, Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
> wrote:
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>
>>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.
Good for him. I sometimes wish I were back at University, too.
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Sat Apr 09 2005 - 13:23:58 CDT
