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

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"Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:2bGxc.6816$n03.2311_at_newssvr32.news.prodigy.com...

> Another, often-cited, is the difference between "flat" tables and
relations,
> and the way people assume relations are 2-dimensional. Consider the
> following:
> 0 0 0
> 0 0 1
> 0 1 0
> 0 1 1
> 1 0 0
> 1 0 1
> 1 1 0
> 1 1 1
>
> Wow! A flat cube! Nifty! I was just too lazy to type out a tessaract
> (hypercube)...

No! The above is 1-dimensional (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7, ...) ! :-) No! Wait! It might be 0-dimensional ! :-) Oh, I give up.

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