Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:53:38 +0300
Message-ID: <40e07630$1_at_post.usenet.com>
"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:4RHDc.125531$Sw.37232_at_attbi_s51...
> > > I was more thinking of something like the relational algebra,
> > > with its minimal set of operators, additional operators defined
> > > in terms of the minimal ones, and a definition of what it means
> > > for a set of operators to be complete. Only for lists.
> > >
> > > Frighteningly, if I can't find something like that, I may have
> > > to do it myself.
> >
> > "Spight list algebra". Sounds good. :-)
>
> I'll get right on it. :-)
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