Re: does a table always need a PK?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:08:38 GMT
Message-ID: <q593b.818$n62.433_at_read3.inet.fi>
Christopher,
"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> kirjoitti viestissä
news:bij2l3$9tgnj$3_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net>
would write:
> > Even still, I find it unforgivable for someone to implement a
> > self-proclaimed rdbms and not have any familiarity with this book. It is
> > unforgivable for someone to claim an opinion on what constitutes an
rdbms
> > and not even know what 4VL is.
>
> I haven't seen any opinion being expressed, on the "MySQL side," as to
> what they think constitutes an RDBMS.
>
> Certainly nothing resembling the "Peano Axioms" that the MySQL guy
> seems to think _everyone else_ should consider as the level of
> discourse.
I have said that the concept of an 'RDBMS' is vague. Lee Fesperman and Bob Badour say it is not vague. It is their job to provide the exact definition. In the threads with Mikito Harakiri and Jan Hidders you find some reasons why I am asking these questions.
> --
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> "misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses."
> -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Best regards,
Heikki Tuuri
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Received on Wed Aug 27 2003 - 23:08:38 CEST