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

"John Jacob" <jingleheimerschmitt_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:72f08f6c.0405210730.7e3cd169_at_posting.google.com...
> > > So I must ask again, what example can you provide which shows that the
> > > relational model is limited.
> >
> > Please bear with me ...
> >
> <snip cut and paste form mountain man's website>
>
> So let me get this straight. You contend that relational theory is
> incomplete (in a Godel-like way, no less) because current systems
> cannot address "application objects". You then proceed to provide an
> "engineering solution" to this problem by addressing application
> objects in a current system. In fact, your solution is making use of
> the very facet of relational theory you are claiming doesn't exist. I
> suggest you take a *big* step back and ask yourself what problem you
> are really trying to solve.

The problem relates to a satisfactory formalised definition of the term "organisational intelligence". Summarily this can be defined as simply the sum of all code plus the data.

You will note that the Relational Model, being related to the data alone, is inadequate for this task.

Database systems and the management thereof, in the final analysis, will be shown to involve not the management of the (static) data, but the management of organizational intelligence.

Pete Brown
Falls Creek
Oz Received on Fri May 21 2004 - 18:06:25 CDT