Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

From: Mike Sherrill <MSherrill_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:47:50 -0500
Message-ID: <br84ovg0ugsj73faupu4gqi8dtmem1h3mb@4ax.com>

On 3 Oct 2003 21:39:03 GMT, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote:

>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.

ISTR that Terry Halpin (of ORM fame) designed a language named "ConQuer". I don't know the details, but I think Date's latest edition refers to it in a note. Halpin's working on Visio at Microsoft now, I think.

-- 
Mike Sherrill
Information Management Systems

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