Re: Relational Databases and Their Guts
From: Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:30:49 +0100
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:30:49 +0100
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"andrewst" <member14183_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message
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>
> Originally posted by Paul Vernon
> > BTW, if you do pick up Chris Date's 1NF article, then see the
> > section titled
> > "RVA's Make Outer Join Unnecessary" for some insight here. As he
> > says, "to
> > represent an empty set by an empty set seems like an obviously
> > good idea!".
> > :-)
> >
> >
> You wouldn't care to cut and paste the article here would you, to save
> us all the expense ;-)
Tell you what, send Fabian an email suggesting someone does that, then duck for the response...
Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services
Received on Mon Jun 23 2003 - 18:30:49 CEST