Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:38:00 GMT
Message-ID: <s%Ped.298447$MQ5.170101@attbi_s52>

"Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message news:417bae60$0$80657$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> > 1. There's a boot-strapping problem. How do you create the initial
> > load of data in the system catalog that describes the system
> > catalog? You can't create the columns in the 'systables' before
> > there's a 'syscolumns' table, nor can you create the 'syscolumns'
> > table before there's a 'systables'.
>
> Easy - you have a system catalog catalog for your meta-meta data.
>
> Er, hang on a minute...

Turtles all the way down!

Marshall Received on Sun Oct 24 2004 - 10:38:00 CDT