Re: Database design, Keys and some other things
From: -CELKO- <jcelko212_at_earthlink.net>
Date: 28 Sep 2005 06:38:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1127914716.567410.120030_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Date: 28 Sep 2005 06:38:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1127914716.567410.120030_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
>> Consider you have a car and over 20 years you gradually bit by bit change every single part of it. The paint job, the engine, the interior, the chassis... everything, bit by bit. After 20 years it doesn't have a single component that was originally in it. It is still the SAME car? <<
This is the problem of King Somebody's Charriot from Budhist literature. The auto industry solved it by saying that a car is the engine block with the VIN number stamped into it. Everything else is an add-on. Received on Wed Sep 28 2005 - 15:38:36 CEST