Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements

From: Fredrik Bertilsson <fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se>
Date: 25 Oct 2004 22:43:19 -0700
Message-ID: <31f7e57d.0410252143.46cc7803_at_posting.google.com>


"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote:

> In fact, my definition of dimension is the most technically correct,
> since the dimensionality of a relation is the number of attributes.
> Consider a set of (x,y,z) points: you could record these in a table
> of three attributes, x, y, and z. But you wouldn't call this two
> dimensional data, even if a printout of "select * from points"
> show up as a grid. This data is three dimensional, because each
> dimension of each row/element varies independently.

So your computer has a 3D screen? Congratulations. You don't need any special gooles to watch a 3D movie.

Fredrik Bertilsson
http://butler.sourceforge.net Received on Tue Oct 26 2004 - 07:43:19 CEST

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