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

"David Cressey" <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:eY4qe.1879$VK4.35_at_newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
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> "mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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>> In this subsequent article, the author makes the assertion
>> that Codd's view of a relational database differs from that
>> of Date and Darwin.
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> Did you mean "Date and Darwen"?

Thanks for the scholarly correction ;-)

> I'm not sure what Darwin would have made of products like Oracle. I guess
> he would have tried to show that it was a product of random mutation and
> natural selection. ;)

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    was not wrong,
   only incomplete"

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