Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:45:21 GMT
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"Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <9X%vc.5730$tB.3511_at_newssvr32.news.prodigy.com>, Eric Kaun
> <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> writes
> >Perhaps, but I still don't think "data comes in tuples" is anything like
an
> >axiom. I could certainly be wrong.
>
> Read C&D's first rule! "Data comes in rows" - which is as far as I can
> make out, a synonym for "data comes in tuples". I'm sure a relational
> guru will disagree, but I can't see the difference ...
And as stated elsewhere, those aren't axioms anyway... he used the word "representation", and the context fully suggests that he's not correlating it with the real world. Received on Wed Jun 09 2004 - 17:45:21 CEST