Re: foundations of relational theory?

Bob Badour wrote:

>While I have observed the phenomenon of application developers looking at
>data management as foreign, I have not observed the converse. The relational
>answer to mismatch is to increase the level of abstraction of the
>application development environment to the level of the dbms.
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Not true. See this quote from Date:

“A quick and admittedly not very scientific survey of a whole shelf load of database textbooks--37 in all, to be exact, including essentially all of the best-known ones--reveals the following: · Only one book had an entire chapter devoted to the topic of integrity (and even there I had severe reservations about the quality of the treatment).

regards,
Lauri Pietarinen Received on Sun Oct 26 2003 - 19:59:53 CET