dawn wrote:
> Jan Hidders wrote:
>
>>dawn wrote:
>>
>>>I'd be happy for you to spell it out, Jan. You are pro-RM and
>>>pro-XQuery, is that right?
>>
>>And pro-Pick, if that happens to be the best tool for the job at hand. ;-)
>
> And a politician too. A question, then, is when you think a non-RM
> model would be advisable.
That question is way to broad and over-simplifying so I cannot give a
clear and meaningful anser to that. It's like asking 'when would you not
use a hammer?'. Are we talking about about the RM as a data-model per
se? Or as a data model at the external level of a DBMS? Or at the
logical level of a DBMS? Are we talking about existing DBMSs or
hypothetical ones? These are all different questions with different
complex answers.
Received on Wed Feb 08 2006 - 15:35:23 CST
