Re: Unknown SQL

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:37:58 -0400
Message-ID: <itCR6.750$655.181240929@radon.golden.net>

>> Anyhow, there doesn't seem to be any logical
>> problems associated with cascading deletes, as Carl suggested.
>
>Indeed there aren't any that would be specific to relational databases. I
>just used this example among many others to point out that industrial
>relational databases are anything but simple. There are tons of concepts to
>learn.
>
>Bobs original statement:
>"Relational is simplicity itself."
>I don't agree.

So, you claim it is easier to force the user to know about Arrays, Sets, Bags, Collections, Iterators, Children, Parents etc. than it is to force the user to know about Relations, Tuples and Domains?

The user doesn't need to know anything about foreign keys and cascading deletes -- the DBA and the DBMS take care of this for the user.

Relational is simplicity itself. Received on Thu May 31 2001 - 20:37:58 CDT