Re: Introducing PlayDB (The Model, The Language, The DBMS)

Hi,

The name 'PlayDB' is an attempt to flame-proof the thread from comments like, "Hey, this is not the way to develop something _serious_" Afterall, its only PlayDB!

Going through thread archives on the three groups (and sites like dbdebunk.com) I find that a lot of arguments occur over definitiona of basic things like "relational", "data model", etc. MySQL AB may use "relational" to mean "able to process SQL queries" and the authors of the third manifesto may mean someone else. All should be well as long as each speaker explains his usage of each word. Words tend to be "overloaded" in real life and if the multiple meanings contiue long enough, they become the right meanings *sigh*.

I have found these online glossaries/dictionaries to be particularly interesting, but I would like to know your opinions:  Ibm glossary of computing terms:
  http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/terminology/goc/gocmain.htm  American National Standard Dictionary for Information Systems:   http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/k5htm/ANSDIT.htm

Please point me to any other sources of information. Its easy to miss some things when there are millions of pages to search, despite google assistance.

I believe at the beginning of the process it might be difficult to separate between descriptions of the model, the language, and the implementation because they affect each other so much but eventualy it should happen.

Regards,

Seun Osewa

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