Re: foundations of relational theory?

In article <eUkqb.87007$275.257141_at_attbi_s53>, Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com> writes
>Except it's never fully general. You have to manually
>create each kind of insert, update, delete, and query.
>You have to consider ahead of time what kinds of
>bulk operations you're going to support. For each
>and every operation, you have to manually write
>procedural code to enable it. Any ones that you
>don't think of ahead of time, the application
>can't do. Whereas if you exposed SQL, you'd have
>full generality no matter what, at no effort.
>
>I don't see any advantages; in fact, it seems a lot worse.

Depends what you're trying to do. What you seem to be saying is that if you expose SQL you get a jack-of-all-trades. Which is fine unless you want a master of one :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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