Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

Thanks for the links.

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message news:<blkq9n$d9puv$4_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> There are two notable 'projects' out there:
>
> 1. There's Darwen and Date's "Tutorial D" language, defined as part
> of their "Third Manifesto" about relational databases.
>
> 2. newSQL <http://newsql.sourceforge.net/>, where they are studying
> two syntaxes, one based on Java, and one based on a
> simplification (to my mind, oversimplification) of SQL.

I was able to get a pdf coy of the "Third Manifesto" article here: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/darwen95third.html but the details of tutorial D seem not to be a part of that article. NewSQL *might* be cool if someone found reason to use it in a DBMS.

Sometimes I wonder why its so important to model data in the "relational  way", to think of data in form of sets of tuples rather than tables or lists or whatever. I mean, though its elegant and based on mathematical principles I would like to know why its the _right_ model to follow in designing a DBMS (or database). The way my mind sees it, should we not rather be interested in what works?

Seun Osewa Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 20:59:06 CDT