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Re: Just one more anecdote

From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 3 Aug 2005 18:28:07 -0700
Message-ID: <1123118887.355794.152280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>


Paul wrote:
> Marshall Spight wrote:
> >
> > I hate to get all Fabian-Pascally on you, but the thing about this
> > is that the RM is based on set theory.
>
> well everything is based on set theory really! I'd suggest a better
> statement is to say the relational model is based on first-order
> predicate logic.

To my view the relationship to set theory is the closer one, but yes, there is certainly a connection to predicate logic as well.

Marshall Received on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 20:28:07 CDT

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