Re: 1GB Tables as Classes, or Tables as Types, and all that refuted
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:15:07 GMT
Message-ID: <f28rd.5869$C63.422961_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be>
Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>
> I'm trying to catch up and thought perhaps someone could answer these two
> questions --
>
> 1) Has anyone provided any better logic related to the 1GB than that
> provided by Date? If not, I would think we could talk about this as
> intuition or hypothesis that there is a mistake rather than anything
> resembling a proof, right?
Not that I know of.
> 2) Has anyone given a good refutation that there is no Great Blunder other
> than to attack the lack of logic in the defense of the 1GB?
From a scientific point the situation is actually very simple. The hypothetis predicts that you run into certain problems when you build DBMSs that are based on this principle. However, such databases have been built and the problems weren't there. Hypothesis falsified. End of story.
- Jan Hidders