Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:05:08 +0200
Message-ID: <40bd0b99$0$561$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Anthony W. Youngman wrote:

mAsterdam writes
>> This reduces the statement to
>> "It was mathematically proven that it is simpler
>> than the graph based approaches." and leaves the
>> judgement to the reader/student. An improvement,
>> but it still leaves the questions unanswered:
>> simpler at what? etc.

> 
> And Occam's Razor (the Einstein version iirc) says "make things as 
> simple as possible, BUT NO SIMPLER".

The examples given in Alfredo's links did a good job at shaving CODASYL's beard by providing the same and better results (for the "no simpler" part) from a much simpler construct. Did you read them? Received on Tue Jun 01 2004 - 18:05:08 CDT