Re: The Practical Benefits of the Relational Model

>>Your message betrays a need to research the relational model. ;-) I
>>would suggest An Introduction to Database Systems by C. J. Date.

>Thanks, I read it some while ago. I'm aware of the theoretical
>background to relational algebra, but I wonder how long it will be
>before OO databases have an equivalent.

Ho ho. Rather misses the point that the Relational Model had a theoretical background from day 1. Trying to formalise a whole mess of things after the fact is non trivial and won't produce you a nice clean model, if infact you can find a single model at all.

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Tue Oct 01 2002 - 20:36:27 CEST