Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

In article <3F7F8E1A.474_at_ix.netcom.com>, Lee Fesperman <firstsql_at_ix.netcom.com> writes
>If you don't care for mathematical principles, there's always ad-hoc database
>models.
>Check out Pick, OO and XML databases. They're interested in what works and
>ignore
>elegance and mathematical principles.

Mathematical principles? You mean like Euclidean Geometry and Newtonian Mechanics? They're perfectly solid, good, mathematically correct. Shame they don't actually WORK all the time in the real world.

That's what I feel about relational, too ...

Cheers,
Wol

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