Re: Is relational theory irrelevant?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:33:53 -0500
Message-ID: <XpqdncOIBa8aMSeiRVn-vw@golden.net>

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message news:bpe69u$10o4$2_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com...
> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
> news:ToednUdmpdK1Dyei4p2dnA_at_golden.net...
> > > > Sending email is an action outside the database environment, so that
> we
> > > have
> > > > to leave DBMS boundary. I know, mindless throwing stuff into the
> > database
> > > is
> > > > pretty popular today, but there is no advantage triggering this
> > real-world
> > > > action from the inside of the database.
> > >
> > > Wrong. It is information, ergo it should be in the database.
> >
> > Sending an email is not information--it is an activity. The email is
> > information. The recipient is information. Sending is not information.

> Can you provide me with a definition by which I can separate things into
> information and activity classifications.

Paraphrasing the standard vocabularies:

Information is knowledge.
An activity is a course of events. Received on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 17:33:53 CST