Re: foundations of relational theory?
From: Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:57:08 +0100
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:57:08 +0100
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"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> They picked a bunch of large companies with the idea of calculating db
> spend as a proportion of turnover. No bias there. They plotted those two
> figures, and were surprised to get a double peak. No bias there, either.
>
> When they investigated this unusual phenomenon, they discovered the low-
> spending peak was almost entirely Pick-based dbs, the high-spending peak
> was relational.
Not relational. SQL.
Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services
Received on Thu Oct 23 2003 - 15:57:08 CEST