Re: Date is Incomplete - database application software and database theory
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:29:17 -0500
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"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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> "Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
> news:40a4ba33.3107788_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004 09:22:12 GMT, "mountain man"
> > <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote:
> >
> > >My reading of Date allows me to assert his detailed
> > >coverage of the theoretical ground of database
> > >systems technology lacks any meaningful discussion
> > >of the (one would implicity assume exists) application
> > >system software which is to "inhabit" the system.
> > >
> > >This is radical incompleteness of theory.
> >
> > No, they are completely independent things.
>
> Which of these two things does not
> share the data schema?
and which has access to a constraints engine or at least constraint specs? If you treat these as separate, then you will have considerable edundancy. --dawn Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 00:29:17 CEST