Re: Can these constraint be implemented in an RDBMS ?
From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: 4 Mar 2004 09:47:32 -0800
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Date: 4 Mar 2004 09:47:32 -0800
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"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message news:<gFD1c.86674$Wa.78708_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> > > 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.
But not positivist science. Science (sadly) has many meanings and they were talking about database teory as if it were positivist science.
Regards
Alfredo
Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 18:47:32 CET