Re: Transactions: good or bad?

Probably, but, Coke can't sue you for calling a soda a coke, either. Really, the term relational no longer belongs to the theoretical community, it belongs to the marketing community. Continually correcting people only reminds them just how much you've lost control of the word. If it were not about control, then you wouldn't correct people. If I want to use relational to describe a behavior that the common masses identify with in a "relational database", I would probably be more correct than those that say it prescribes only to the theory, because I would be communicating in the language the people use, while you would only be communicating in a language you want people to use.

Mike Sherrill <MSherrill_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news:<5ibfev46ahle36rom0q2a0o4o50487fck4_at_4ax.com>...
> On 11 Jun 2003 10:07:02 -0700, anakin_at_unitedsoftworks.com (Todd
> Bandrowsky) wrote:
>
> >So I think for you to say that relational theory and SQL Servers are
> >not the same is disingenous.
>
> I'm tempted to observe that saying relational theory and SQL servers
> (lowercase "s") are the same is just fundamentally ignorant.
Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 05:46:24 CEST