Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:52:55 GMT
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:52:55 GMT
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"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> wrote in message news:cbt5l1$7td$1_at_news.netins.net...
>
> Dawn's Information Principle:
> The entire information content as well as metadata of a functional database
> is represented in one and only one way,: namely, as mathematical functions.
>
> Because functions are relations, this is actually tighter. This covers all
> of the data and the operators -- all can be viewed logically as
> [f]unctions. --dawn
This is less expressive than picking relations.
Marshall Received on Wed Jun 30 2004 - 06:52:55 CEST