Re: which softeware can create database?

Bob Badour wrote:
>"Jan Hidders" <hidders_at_REMOVE.THIS.uia.ua.ac.be> wrote in message
>news:3dcc2530$1_at_news.uia.ac.be...
>>
>> That's not enough to make it a convention. What you should look at is how
>> the term is used in the database research community (VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDT,
>> DBPL, et cetera) and by the people who actually implement databases, and
>> then the picture changes quite dramatically. Note that I'm not saying that
>> this is a good thing, on the contrary, but how you and I feel about the
>> situation is simply irrelevant here. Perhaps if Chris Date had taken some
>> more trouble to actually publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals the
>> situation might have been better.
>
>Why? Would the peer-review fairy have waved a magic wand and made everything
>better?

No, not everything, just a wider acceptance of the specific use of certain terms in the scientific community and with that in the database community at large.

>Stop and think back through history to every major fundamental advance in
>human understanding. Now consider the contribution peer review had to each
>of them.

We were not talking about whether Date's views are appreciated in the scientific community or not.

>Willful ignorance is no excuse.

The scientific community knows Date's views very well.

>BTW, is SIGMOD peer-reviewed ?

I presume you mean SIGMOD record? Some parts of it.

>http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/darwen95third.html

Is that all you could find? Here, let me help you a little:

  http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/d/Date:C=_J=.html

• Jan Hidders