Re: XQuery question
From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih+nr_at_eunetnorge.no>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 20:48:56 +0200
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 20:48:56 +0200
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neo55592_at_hotmail.com (Neo) writes:
>> Given meta-data tables that describe relations between tables, [...]
> Since the relational data model (rdm) defines a "relation" as being a
He's obviously talking about entity tables and relation tables. See
> set of tuples which is generally conceptualized as a table, the above
> sentence in rdm-speak would translate to "tables between tables" which
> is probably not what you meant. What word did rdm formally assign to
> the word "relation" as used in the above sentence? Surely rdm has a
> formal word for that very basic and fundamental concept.
-tih
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