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

"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:40a5683d.498506_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 22:14:09 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?
>
> "The theoretical ground of database systems technology share the data
> schema" doesn't make sense.
>
> "The application system software share the data schema" doesn't make
> sense.
>
> You are losing yourself using words sloppily.

On the contrary, we have the database software and the application software layers, protocol stacks, whatever you wish to call them.

You may call them whatever you wish, but your original claim above, that they are *independent* (ignoring the completely) is mis-informed, and in fact the converse is applicable: they are highly interrelated.

Pete Brown
Falls Creek
Oz Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 11:43:42 CDT