Re: Transactions: good or bad?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:20:49 -0700
Message-ID: <1055532079.457139_at_news-1.nethere.net>
"Todd Bandrowsky" <anakin_at_unitedsoftworks.com> wrote in message <news:af3d9224.0306111921.35cd53f7_at_posting.google.com>...
> Well, it may well be, but, certainly you must concede that the message
> has been lost to the masses, and that, in the very least,
> theoreticians have done a poor job on selling their message to the
> masses. I mean, Sybase was described by Date as a relational
> database, and then, his followers say that its not relational any
> more? How dumb looking is that!
At least some of Date's criticisms of Sybase and other products is based on work done at the School of Hard Knocks? The relational model has also evolved since 1970. Anyway, if vendors stuck to the relational model, that wouldn't leave a whole lot of room for the vendors' "indispensable" proprietary features, would it?
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