Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:42:32 GMT
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"Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:cG35c$ORIz7AFwQu_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk...
> In message <40e09d5e$0$65807$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>, mAsterdam
> <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> writes
> >>>Say we have a pizza-attribute 'topping' of type 'list-of-toppings'
> >> Why is that a list? When I go to pizza hut and ask for ham and
> >> pineapple, I get the same thing as if I asked for pineapple and
> >> ham. Pizza toppings aren't a list; they're a set.
> >
> >To connaisseurs it's a list. The order of the toppings
> >matters. I assumed that this foundation of the
> >pizza-model was common knowledge ;-)
>
> Tomato always goes at the bottom, cheese on the top :-)
Good point.
Is crust a topping?
Marshall Received on Sat Jul 10 2004 - 03:42:32 CEST