Re: Does Codd's view of a relational database differ from that of Date & Darwin? [M.Gittens]
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 4 Jun 2005 07:54:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1117896882.541395.105380_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Date: 4 Jun 2005 07:54:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1117896882.541395.105380_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
> Anything that can be modeled with [nulls]
> can also be modeled without them, and to the extent that they
> are convenient this is mostly due to the fact that the possibilities for
> user-defined domains were too restricted.
That statement surprises me. What about outer join?
In application code I often run in to situations where there is either a legal value or else there is a special case, and good practice is *not* to use a special value, but rather to "protect" the value with another variable. This leads to the unfortunate fact that you still sometimes have a (meaningless) value in the primary variable.
Marshall Received on Sat Jun 04 2005 - 16:54:42 CEST