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

In message <kqSdnSFr8-vv3U7dRVn-uQ_at_comcast.com>, Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net> writes
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>"Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:SI7zJjE3Xy0AFwZq_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk...
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>> Oddly enough, I've just been trying to get to grips with our new SQL
>> database. And I asked "how do I know which tables belong together?" I
>> was told that, given an individual table, I couldn't find out which
>> other tables "join"ed to it. I "just had to know".
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>Bad database, don't you think? If the appropriate REFERENCES clauses had
>been included, you would be able to figure out the join conditions,
>wouldn't you?

Maybe they have been. How would I find out? Or maybe the RDBMS doesn't support REFERENCES. It's MS Squirrel Server :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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