Re: Can these constraint be implemented in an RDBMS ?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:08:48 -0500
Message-ID: <8bOdnSp4YdEn-NvdRVn-gQ_at_golden.net>


"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:4045b4a0.327771_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:54:40 GMT, "mountain man"
> <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote:
>
> >> > What would be a good choice? I understand where you are coming from
> >> > (SQL databases are not relational, etc.) but what is the available
> >> > alternative?
> >>
> >> The relational model.
> >
> >
> >FWIW these theorists have a bad habit
> >of confusing the map with the territory.
>
> It is avaiable, but rather expensive at this moment.

I find mountain man's stupidity above particularly remarkable. How many of the theorists in this newsgroup have criticized the territory for being "flat" or "two-dimensional" ? Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 00:08:48 CET

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