Re: Date's First Great Blunder

In message <c5oj0f$255$1_at_news.netins.net>, Dawn M. Wolthuis <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> writes
>> >I am an example of someone who has used Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL, and
>> >PostgreSQL and much prefer the data model of the U2 databases (UniVerse
>and
>> >UniData). Why? Because I care about the cost of ownership for the
>overall
>> >software solutions over time. I am not alone in knowing and using
>> >relational databases and prefering not to.
>>
>> None of the above is a RDBMS and My SQL is not a DBMS at all.
>
>So, we have a theory and no implementations so it is impossible for us to
>know whether the theory is useful or not? I won't hold my breath for an
>actual consumer product that is deemed good enough for us to test the
>theory. And, by the way, since Codd's first relational theory paper was
>published by ACM in 1970, what is keeping us from having an implementation
>these many years later? I'll admit there are no perfect PICK
>implementations by a long stretch, but the first implementation of it was,
>indeed, an implementation.

I'll repeat myself :-)

Relational is so simple, that in 30 years we STILL don't have a proper implementation of it?

Cheers,
Wol

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