Re: Entity vs. Table

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"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:40d164f6.538133_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:23:35 -0400, "Alan" <alan_at_erols.com> wrote:
>
> >> The Relational Model says nothing about the physical level.
> >
> >I am talking about taking a completed relational model design and
> >implementing it. You know, I've designed all the tables and now I'm
typing
> >SQL to build them in the RDBMS.
>
> SQL mixes the logical and the physical levels, but the most part of
> the physical design is created by the SQL DBMS automatically.

I warned you that when you say "SQL" Alan understands "physical model" or "implementation", not "logical model"

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