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From: "Heikki Tuuri" <Heikki.Tuuri@innodb.com>
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Tony,

"Tony Douglas" <tonyisyourpal@netscape.net> kirjoitti viestissä
news:bcb8c360.0308270250.40de43a6@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> "Heikki Tuuri" <Heikki.Tuuri@innodb.com> wrote in message
news:<SiQ2b.467$4X.270@read3.inet.fi>...
> > Yes. But a "DBMS" is a vague concept and I do not have time to define
> > "Heikki Tuuri -DBMS".
> >
> Questions that spring to mind :
> a) How can someone
writing/supporting/selling/extending/whatever-InnoDB's-relationship-to-MySql
-might-be
> honestly say a DBMS is a vague concept ?

please give a formal definition of a "DBMS". In the style of mathematics. It
is like writing a formal definition what an "operating system" is. Or a
formal definition what a "horse" is.

...
> - Tony

Best regards,

Heikki Tuuri
Innobase Oy
http://www.innodb.com
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