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"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> hunched over a computer, typing
feverishly;
thunder crashed, "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> laughed madly, then
wrote:
>>SQL is a logical language, based on set theory, which describes
>>relations between data sets.
>>resolve the relations between the tables internally in order to decide
>>what to extract and present.
>
>You have confused the meaning of relation. The term Relation does not
>describe referential integrity relationships among tables. The term Relation
>describes tables themselves.
>
It's quite possible that I'm not using the word in an accepted way; I think my meaning was perfectly clear.
>This is perhaps the most damaging and the most annoying misconception of
>all.
-- Joe Cosby http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology. - Nietzsche Sig by Kookie Jar 5.98d http://go.to/generalfrenetics/Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 13:29:48 CDT
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