Re: dbdebunk 'Quote of Week' comment

From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:38:42 +0300
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"Alexandr Savinov" <spam_at_conceptoriented.com> wrote in message news:4312e49d$1_at_news.fhg.de...

> In general I think that we lack information on "identtity modeling"
> althoug it is as important as data modeling itself. Identity modeling is
> a separate topic, a dual part for data modeling. In other words, we can
> model identity ignoring object properties. And it may well be rather
> complex model. It will involve entities without properties - only
> identities. The following properties of identity make this task rather
> difficult:

Why modeling identity ignoring properties ? Maybe identity is not that important.
If a database cannot distinguish some "objects", maybe they are interchangeable. Received on Tue Aug 30 2005 - 15:38:42 CEST

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