mountain man wrote:
>> Afredo elsewhere responded to:
>
>>> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
>
> 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)
>
> 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
>
> My estimate/opinion is around 80% give or take 10%.
>
> What is your estimate and/or opinion?
>
Search on Google Groups for a thread called "4 the FAQ: Are Commercial DBMS
Truly Relational" Most of the issues were dealt with in that thread.
--
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Tue Jun 07 2005 - 06:09:18 CDT
