Re: Can these constraint be implemented in an RDBMS ?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:37:00 GMT
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"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
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> "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
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>
> > > Only relational zealots are database theorists. All the others,
including
> > > you, indulge in conjecture. Conjecture <> Theory.
> > >
> > > Roy Hann
> >
> > Show me a scientist who does not indulge in conjecture! Surely you have
an
> > appreciation for hypotheses that have not yet been proven, right?
Afterall,
> > what is a theory? I looked it up and here is one of the defintions
found at
> > dictionary.com
> >
> > Theory, def: "An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a
> > conjecture"
> >
> > Of course, we don't want only untested theories. smiles. --dawn
>
> Computing science is not positivist science!
Yet it *is* a science according to ...
"The foundation of modern database technology is without question the relational model; it is that foundation that makes the field a science."
- DATE, the first para to Part II (The Rel Model) Intro Database Systems.
> You are mixing apples with oranges.
OTOH, Date is probably wrong
or positivism triumphs over science.
Best wishes,
Pete Brown
Falls Creek
Oz
Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 11:37:00 CET