Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS

"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:cPwed.303596$D%.192857_at_attbi_s51...

> Are you arguing that that's how it is often done, or that that's how
> it *ought* to be done?

I'm claiming that that is how it IS done in DEC Rdb and in Oracle.
>

> As far as how it *ought* to be done, I claim the catalog should be
> the definitive source of truth, and the DDL should be syntactic
> sugar for manipulating the catalog. It's conceptually simpler that
> way.

Can you really build a DBMS that way? Received on Sat Oct 23 2004 - 12:53:51 CDT