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

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:26:48 -0700
Message-ID: <wZ5wc.34$924.226@news.oracle.com>

"Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message
news:Br4wc.11279$NK4.1473069_at_stones.force9.net...
> Mikito Harakiri wrote:
> > Logic perspective is not the only interpretation. Propositions like
> >
> > <name='Hrundi V. Bakshi', age = 35>
> >
> > are too miniscule to be elevated to the status of axioms.
>
> Why? Who says how important axioms must be?

I do :-/

> I still maintain that you can regard a database as a collection of
> tuple-axioms, with the DBMS playing the part of logic. I'm not just
> saying this is an analogy, I'm claiming it's a proper isomorphism.

Seriously, they are not axioms.

<quote from Mathworld>
A proposition regarded as self-evidently true without proof. The word "axiom" is a slightly archaic synonym for postulate. Compare conjecture or hypothesis, both of which connote apparently true but not self-evident statements.
</quote from Mathworld>

The tuples are the facts that user gathered outside of math realm -- in the physical world. Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 16:26:48 CDT