Re: Representing data on disk in an MV database - was Re: foundations of relational theory? - some references for the truly starving

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:33:58 -0700
Message-ID: <bFcmb.21$A85.211_at_news.oracle.com>


"Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:dxamb.506$RQ1.288_at_newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >>>"Mike Preece" <michael_at_preece.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Apology not necessary. Thanks anyway - it's like a breath of fresh
> >>>>air.
> >>>>Char(255) = End of item mark
> Dear Mikito,
>
> It appears that there is more than one way for people who read English
> as their native tongue to understand Mike Preece's comment. I confess
> that I don't understand how that second construction works - I'll have
> to ask Bob to explain.
>
> However, since there is such an alternative, I apologize for assuming
> that my reading of Mike Preece's commentary is the only plausible one.

My mistake. Sincerely, I should have cut out the part of the sentence before "breath of fresh air" from my comment. Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 18:33:58 CEST

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