Re: Relational Databases and Their Guts
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:28:27 -0400
Message-ID: <9TpIa.200$dq5.27236380_at_mantis.golden.net>
"Todd Bandrowsky" <anakin_at_unitedsoftworks.com> wrote in message
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> > What on earth do you mean by that?
>
> RDBMS: popularly defined category of database servers who implement
> some dialect of SQL and claim to implement or conform to relational
> algebra at some level. Hence the name.
SQL does not define RDBMS. When you insist on idiosynchratic definitions of words and terms, you refuse to communicate. I suggest you open a dictionary from time to time. If you find books tiresome, try http://www.dictionary.com/
> Relational Database: A theoretical construct.
A relational database is a very real logical construct. It is theoretical in the sense of relating to or being based on theory, but it is not theoretical in the sense of being speculative or hypothetical or in the sense of being not practical. Received on Thu Jun 19 2003 - 22:28:27 CEST