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Re: Do Data Models Need to built on a Mathematical Concept?

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 5 May 2003 09:03:10 -0700
Message-ID: <4b45d3ad.0305050803.45f77ee4@posting.google.com> 





> Anyway, I think the word you are after is RELATIONSHIP, not RELATION.




You maybe right, however etymologically the word relation came before
relationship.
 


> In some sense, Codd would have done better naming the model 

> "The Logical Model of Data".




Actually I think the name is apppropriate but the word relational in
"relational data model" should mean 'that which is common among
things' or similar and not 'a set of tuples'.
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