I've participated in data modeling competitions before, both organizing and
participating.
Realize that data modeling is more of an iterative process than a concrete
science. As the Zippy discussion thread pointed out, just because one
modeler would win doesn't necessarily mean that the modeling tool/style was
inherently better than the others.
I'd be curious to hear more about what you are talking about, and I would
love to see your reasoning (not intuition) for stating that the relational
model should be retired.
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"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
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> If we were to find a sponsor for a competition where the winner would be a
> named data model and the primary criteria would be related to the cost tor
> an institution choosing to use that data model (including costs if there
is
> a lack of quality or breach of security or difficulty in maintinaing it,
> ...), what should that competition include?
>
> I would very much like to see such a competition because my intuition,
> without sufficient scientifically gathered emperical data, is that the
> relational model ought to be retired. I realize there are logical
arguments
> for doing so, but even my own logical arguments don't prove to me that any
> other model (particularly those modeled on mathematical graphs or
di-graphs)
> is any better, only that each has merits and demerits. I would like some
> real data - how could we collect such?
>
> Thanks. --dawn
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 13 2004 - 11:44:03 CST
