Re: Date is Incomplete - database application software and database theory

"Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra" <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:pan.2004.05.13.15.28.08.866190_at_dutra.fastmail.fm...
> Em Thu, 13 May 2004 14:59:29 +0000, mountain man escreveu:
>
> > It may be "reasonably sufficient" for database but it is totally
> > inadequate for a database running an application.
>
> This remains for you to prove, and you seem incapable of
> doing.

Are personal attacks necessary? Is your intent to bully/intimidate or what?

> A tip. It is no use expanding scopes endlessly until you work
> out the fundamentals.
>
> As there are still fundamentals being done and discussed, such
> as the temporal issue, and as the world still needs to be educated as
> you are a case in point, it is useless to keep complicating the
> issues.
>
> Get real. Applications as you are thinking of them are
> orthogonal to databases;

Great quotation -- "applications ... are orthogonal to databases". This gets at the heart of one of our communication gaps. It is like saying that input and output are "orthogonal" to databases -- oh, and processing too. I have no use for databases that are

> databases are made to applications and to
> users, and this is taken care quite nicely by the RM.
>
> Now please, give us something better than your usually
> ridiculous rants. Get educated.

An educated mind is an open mind and mountain man fits the bill. --dawn Received on Thu May 13 2004 - 21:01:19 CDT