Re: Is mysql a RDBMS ?

From: Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:00:12 +0100
Message-ID: <bj0d5c$1fbc$1@gazette.almaden.ibm.com>

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message news:U9r3b.72$Br4.10705055_at_mantis.golden.net...
> "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message
> news:bil8gl$anhtd$1_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de...
[snip]
> > "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found
> > difficult and not tried." -- G.K. Chesterton
>
> The problem with the relational model is that it has never been found
> difficult. It has been assumed difficult and not tried.

I would say that it was assumed difficult when System R was built. Oracle had to copy the IBM standard to be commercially viable and the rest is history; i.e. we are locked in (albeit only weakly) to SQL.

Actually, it possibly *was* difficult back in those days with the limited CPU and memory available.

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Mon Sep 01 2003 - 16:00:12 CDT