Jan Hidders wrote:
> mountain man wrote:
>>
>> It was a brief discussion only for the purpose of asking the
>> following two questions which have not yet been answered:
>>
>> 1) Is it clear/true that Date's "abstract machine" necessarily
>> evolves due to change management considerations over
>> time? (eg: expansion of business to include widgets)
>
> Yes, this is usually known as "schema evolution" and used to be a
> popular research subject in the database and data modelling communities.
What came of that research? (I'm googling as we speak, but wondering about
your take on it).
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Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Mon May 30 2005 - 20:19:45 CDT
