Re: foundations of relational theory?

From: Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:57:08 +0100
Message-ID: <bn8mth$18s8$1@gazette.almaden.ibm.com>

"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:T1ljmMCJ9ul$EwsP_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk...
> 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 - 08:57:08 CDT