Re: Grammatical Inconsistencies

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:23:50 GMT, James L. Ryan <taliesinsoft_at_mac.com> wrote:

>My guideline here is C. J. Date's "An Introduction to Database Systems, 7th
>Edition." On page 156 he states, "We consider the operators in the sequence
>union, intersection, difference, product, restrict, project, join, and
>divide..." (In the book the operator names are italicized .) I consider the
>first four of these to be expressed as nouns and the remaining four as verbs.
>This is the "grammatical inconsistency" to which I was alluding in my
>originating note in this threadlet.

I agree.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Wed Apr 21 2004 - 12:12:30 CEST