Re: Pizza Example
From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:55:52 -0400
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:55:52 -0400
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> More to the point, it's structured in a manner the database can
> understand, which isn't the case if the information is scattered across
> multiple tables :-)
This gets to the heart of the matter. If I can expand on this, I have two questions:
First, does the relational data model scatter information across multiple relations?
Second, if so, does the database fail to understand what the relational model has done?
And here's a third question: can a relational model be reconstructed from the database schema? If not, why not? Received on Tue Apr 06 2004 - 15:55:52 CEST