Re: Ah, but who has better parties?
Date: 13 May 2004 17:38:13 -0700
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"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message news:<l3Moc.36609$TT.29378_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
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> You may as well, because neither party, unless they take on board
> both the database theory and the (database + application) theory,
> [which is the missing element from Date et al] will ever present a
> complete, consistent and maximally efficient account of that business.
>
I'm intrigued now. If we accept the position that logic is embedded in the database server, by dint of proper constraint management and a proper implementation of domains, how much is actually left for the application side of things to do, beyond presentation ? Presumably collection of parameters and issuing an appropriate database update statement ?
> Businesses require education.
> So do the so-called academics.
>
Cheers !
- Tony
(At the relational party, but wishing things would, you know, lighten up a bit. All this politics and religion getting bandied about. So far as I know, database theories haven't killed anyone yet.) Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 02:38:13 CEST