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Re: Does Codd's view of a relational database differ from that ofDate&Darwin?[M.Gittens]

From: Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:45:08 GMT
Message-ID: <om_pe.115107$lF7.6586462@phobos.telenet-ops.be> 





Marshall Spight wrote:


> Do you have other examples of list algebras that you're

> particularly impressed with for their expressive power?




What would you like to achieve with the algebra? Note that the point of 
algebras, including the relational algebra, is usually not their 
expressive power, we have programming languages for that. So it is not 
clear to me what you are looking for.




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