Re: Poll: What percentage advantage are RDBMS vendors taking of the RM?

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:57:20 GMT
Message-ID: <kvZoe.1586829$8l.1480031@pd7tw1no>

mountain man wrote:

>>Afredo elsewhere responded to:

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>>>My point, which you appear to agree with, is that the vendors
>>>are indeed taking some advantage from the RM.  I am not at
>>>this point concerned with 'How Much', only that it is not null.

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>>Of course it is not null, that is evident and nobody said the
>>contrary. You don't need to understand the Relational Model in order
>>to take some advantage on it.

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> How much now, as a percentage out of 100, are contributors
> to this newsgroup prepared to estimate the "realisation" of the
> relational model of data within the SQL-DBMS vendors
> (ie: IBM - DB2, Oracle, MS - SQL Server)
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> The rating of 100 equates to full realisation of the RM.
> The rating of 50 equates to half realisation of the RM.
> The rating of 10 equates to 10% realisation of the RM.
> The rating of 0 equates to zero realisation of the RM
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> My estimate/opinion is around 80% give or take 10%.
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> What is your estimate and/or opinion?
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there seem to be two questions here. my answer to the first one is that i am zero percent prepared to answer the second one, let alone willing.

if you really, truly want some more numbers, save us all some time and make some up. that would be as useful as asking the second question.

p Received on Mon Jun 06 2005 - 09:57:20 CDT