Re: Do Data Models Need to built on a Mathematical Concept?
Date: 02 May 2003 06:18:35 GMT
Message-ID: <3eb20dbb$0$2541$9b622d9e_at_news.freenet.de>
Lauri Pietarinen <lauri.pietarinen_at_atbusiness.com> writes:
>> Just as Newton's Theories were
>>displaced by Quantum Theories, so will the Relational Data Model.
>>
>It was not exactly displaced, was it? It was just refined...
Correct. Basically, Newton's Theories are still in use for almost all things that matter to us in daily life. They have been augmented for very small distance scales, by Quantum Theory, and for very large distance scales / relative speeds, by Special and General Relativity. But in the areas mattering to living on this dirt ball, including most practical engineering, Newton (and Thermodynamics) still rules.
So, keeping with the analogy, the question would be: where's the boundary beyond which the RDM does break down, and must/should be replaced by something else? And: if the RDM corresponds to Mechanics, what corresponds to Thermodynamics?
best regards
Patrick (neither a physicist, nor a DB person. I do networks.)
Received on Fri May 02 2003 - 08:18:35 CEST